Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for me at least the light had been turned on . |
| 2 | She walked over to the rail and leant her forearms on it as she stared across the river , and drew in a shuddery little breath , hating the fact that Luke could make her so aware of him with just a look . |
| 3 | Moyer spoke in support of it for almost an hour . |
| 4 | Despite considerable pressure , much of it from outside the club , there was little chance of a decision being taken yesterday . |
| 5 | Despite considerable pressure , much of it from outside the club , there was little chance of any crucial decision being taken yesterday . |
| 6 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 7 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 8 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |
| 9 | I was with her for about an hour . |
| 10 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 11 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 12 | After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed . |
| 13 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 14 | But there were men in it for quite a while , I was wondering when that kind of faded out . |
| 15 | But ‘ belong ’ — she is fearful that for her at least the word may explode , may vanish in a puff of smoke as delicate as the smoke that trickles from Fenna 's nostrils when he is asleep ; as delicate as the fronds of smoke that drift mysteriously from the end of Phoebe 's cigarette when she gestures impatiently in conversation . |
| 16 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 17 | game so they can have an effect on the child so that the outcome is better if you just if you do n't get to them till there the child 's done the SATS and it 's over |
| 18 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 19 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 21 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 22 | ‘ Good-night , John , ’ she said , demurely , and walked up her front steps , turning to wave to him from inside the house . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
| 24 | goes to her for quite a while and she was saying , Oh I do n't think Shavina likes me . |
| 25 | He studied her warrant card intently , as though there might be some real doubt about her identity , and then returned it to her without even the glimmer of a smile . |
| 26 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |
| 27 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 28 | There were very strong objections from one landowner and frontager and much pressure was brought to bear on him by both the company and the Rural District Council , who announced on 9 September that he had accepted their conditions . |
| 29 | but this diet is the one that Shelly , she lost quite a lot and Jill went on it for quite a while |
| 30 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |