Example sentences of "[prep] a month [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a month you get the look . |
| 2 | ‘ After a month she said she could n't cope with it — she had so much to do and had to make all the decisions . ’ |
| 3 | What you should bear in mind of course , is that in the space of a month I probably look at this a couple of thousand times . |
| 4 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 5 | I agreed to take the girls there , and for a month I wrote down French words in a little pocket book , to help me on the journey . |
| 6 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 7 | We kept putting food out , though , and after about a month they all suddenly returned , with hordes of hungry ducklings in tow . |
| 8 | ‘ I need help getting on and off the train and British Rail provides a ramp for this , but for about a month it 's only been possible for me to arrive or leave the station before 3.15pm . |
| 9 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 10 | Nevertheless Mr Gaston said within a month they had cut costs to match the income … without losing a single job . |
| 11 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 12 | Within a month he had given up frustration and made his Christmas presents instead . |
| 13 | Within a month he was married again . ’ |
| 14 | Amazing is n't it ? that now Batty 's moved to Blackburn , within a month he 's being hailed as a good passer of the ball . |
| 15 | Alan , 45 , fears within a month he could be out of a job and home . |
| 16 | Within a month he was back before the SFA , which increased his last fine to £2,000 and extended his ban for another season for violating the previous month 's punishment during the Scottish Cup semi-final against St Johnstone at Parkhead . |
| 17 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 18 | Even the teachers hated me ; one — a Miss McKeller — found some reason to lay the strap across my hands every day , and within a month I was stammering so badly no one could understand a word I said . |
| 19 | Within a month I was back in the garden again catching up on the weeding . |
| 20 | Within a month she married Johnny Hesketh , the younger brother of Lord Hesketh . |
| 21 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 22 | In fact , within a month it had sold out — a unique feat for such a volume . |
| 23 | The experiments in rabbits were begun and within a month it was apparent that 6-MP was a potent suppressor of the immune response . |
| 24 | Yet within a month it had received additional funding and increased sessions and would be able to meet demands previously unattainable . |
| 25 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 26 | Most of them looked to be students , but in a month we never managed a longer conversation than ‘ Hi ! |
| 27 | where I went to work down there and in a month they put , it was amongst a shop of about sixteen men and they all had separate orders and the men had got little lads working for them , you know . |
| 28 | — In a month you 'll be bored with your job . |
| 29 | So the council informed Seth if I do n't move in a month I 'll have to put an application in |
| 30 | In a month it was forgotten ; it was but a dream , and to-day you might search in vain for the place which enthusiastic optimists averred was the cradle of a second Winnipeg . |