Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've come home in rather a hurry , because I 've decided to go to Brazil . ’ |
| 2 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 3 | Two branches in Birmingham were visited regularly for over a year between 1980 and 1981 . |
| 4 | As a result , farmers and foresters , custodians of the countryside , have got away with rather a lot . |
| 5 | Rasbora maculata can be housed then in either a community environment , or on their own — an ideal size of aquarium being three or four feet , depending on the number of fish that are kept . |
| 6 | Cut all the vegetables finely so that the dish can be eaten easily with just a fork . |
| 7 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 8 | A postal survey of genitourinary medicine clinics in 1988 showed that a third offered hepatitis B vaccine to clinic attenders , and a recent audit report from a London genitourinary medicine clinic estimated that vaccine was delivered successfully to only a quarter of susceptible new homosexual patients . |
| 9 | They had practised together for only an hour , yet it seemed like an eternity . |
| 10 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |
| 11 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 12 | Relations with the other communist giant , the People 's Republic of China , had improved remarkably at both a state and a party-to-party level . |
| 13 | It was published regularly for almost a century and appeared in twelve editions and seven languages . |
| 14 | Shift-change was long over ; Haminh should have returned here at least an hour ago , unless she had a lover who had n't been mentioned , who she was in the habit of spending a shift with . |