Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | could you leave my tea-bag in there a bit longer , . |
| 2 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 3 | He held my gaze for just a fraction longer than you 'd expect , and I was certain then that underneath his professional front he was interested in me . |
| 4 | You 're my ideal of how a man should be … ’ |
| 5 | I refused to see my counsellor for almost a month . |
| 6 | No , cos I I have n't used my camera for over a year and it 's been fucking flung out from S A and all sorts . |
| 7 | Within a mere fifteen minutes , the new rental car with 1500 miles on the clock — and had only had in my possession for under an hour — was a burnt out shell . |
| 8 | Jenny my guest at about a quarter past eleven . |
| 9 | The advisory teacher and Betty disagreed in their views about how a task might be presented . |
| 10 | The same survey also says that ungrateful employers leave nearly all travel arrangements to their secretaries with scarcely a word of thanks . |
| 11 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
| 12 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 14 | Following their success with both A Room with a View and Maurice , Ismail Merchant and James Ivory complete their E M Forster hat-trick in customary style . |
| 15 | Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take . |
| 16 | They continued on their journey for nearly an hour without another word . |
| 17 | Meg sat over her letter for nearly an hour , crossing out line after line , and neatly copying her final version like a schoolchild . |
| 18 | Her step slowed and she was about to turn round to voice some rejoinder but continued on , gripping the child 's hand hard now and stepping up her walk into almost a trot . |
| 19 | Near its edge the dark , wet sand was a sheen on which footsteps kept their shape for only a minute or two . |
| 20 | It 's worth noting that workers blame their jobs for over a quarter of any violent incidents in which they are involved — these kinds of crime can cost business dearly ! |
| 21 | Watson 's remark in a BBC Radio 4 interview reiterated his views of almost a decade earlier . |
| 22 | The plasterer dressed in his working clothes of fustian splashed with white lime , seen in the Little Dorrit illustration saying goodbye to the Father of the Marshalsea , managed to settle with his creditors after only a week . |
| 23 | Thus his/her appreciation of perhaps a landscape , but the dismissal of , say , a Pollock or Mondrian . |
| 24 | The electronic cheep from the alarm chiselled into his skull at precisely a quarter to seven . |
| 25 | There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time . |
| 26 | Lt. Stirling injured his spine and also lost his sight for about an hour . |
| 27 | Miandad was still shouting and waving his arms about when a Pakistan supporter ran onto the ground and was repelled by two stewards . |
| 28 | Well away from the beaten track he laid her gently on a bed of moss and bracken , and she opened her arms to him , loath to lose his touch for even a second . |
| 29 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 30 | It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing . |