Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't known where to go , but he had a good instinct for direct , and he 'd reckoned as how a gateway had to be in the shell , far away from the heat sink as could be . |
| 2 | It was a house I 'd passed by twice a day a hundred times or more . |
| 3 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 4 | But it 'd save a lot of hard work if you got rid of quite a lot of it . |
| 5 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 6 | Daisy knew little about them ( Lily and Ethel even less ) , except that they were numerous and had formed by now a ghetto in the Leylands district of Leeds . |
| 7 | It exploded after he picked up the device which had fallen from underneath a car outside a house on the Antrim Road . |
| 8 | She had sat for maybe an hour , in an almost trancelike state , then she heard a rustling and approaching footsteps . |
| 9 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 10 | Fortunately it was a price she could afford , and she had made the arrangements , coming back to her room to eat the best meal and sleep the best sleep she had done for quite a while . |
| 11 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 12 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 13 | We had to walk for about a week , sleeping during the day and continuing at night . |
| 14 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 15 | The effect , however , was that authorities had to live with both a GREA and a target and authorities spending above their target suffered a penalty even if their expenditure was within the GREA figure . |
| 16 | Rescue workers had battled for over an hour to revive them . |
| 17 | Rescue workers had battled for over an hour to revive them . |
| 18 | Tomba had led by almost a second on the first run . |
| 19 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |
| 20 | I had worked there , and that was when I was sixty five , so I 'd worked there all my working life , apart from the , the war years and had served under quite a number of people really . |
| 21 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated . |
| 22 | The building work was not complete — indeed , the kitchen was not finished until January , and we had to survive with only a gas primus stove . |
| 23 | It all stemmed from the fact that England had tried for almost a century to conquer Scotland — and failed . |
| 24 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 25 | Nor was there an explanation as to why the letter , which was dated 10 June 1965 , had waited for over a year and a half before being revealed . |
| 26 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 27 | Comparing the situation in 1975 with the year of introduction ( generally prewar ) , on average the ratio of benefits to earnings had risen slightly , the duration of benefits had doubled to nearly a year , the delay before eligibility to benefit had halved ( to two days ) , and the period of disqualification ( on account of dismissal for misconduct , for example ) had halved to about three weeks . |
| 28 | In the meantime , however , the Cubans sought to gain at least a breathing space by making a little known but highly significant approach to the United States . |
| 29 | Balleny 's voyage was a commercial failure , the sealskins he unloaded paying for only a fraction of the expedition . |
| 30 | We sat talking for about an hour while Anna tearfully related how she had recently been ‘ ditched ’ by her lover ( a young man of 23 ) for a girl of 18 . |