Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that I can edit out any really awful mistakes that you make , or indeed any mistakes that I as an interviewer make , but it also means I can edit out some of the things you wish you 'd left in . |
| 2 | Yours fearfully AN ANNOUNCEMENT You know , your weekly visit to the supermarket is a good start . |
| 3 | I am an electronics engineer by training and enjoy the purity of mathematics as a hobby , alongside woodturning and anything practical and creative . |
| 4 | no , I half an hour after this , an hour after that . |
| 5 | Professor Kingsley was called and asked by prosecuting counsel , ‘ Are you just an expert on the word ‘ bollocks ’ ? ’ |
| 6 | I am writing to offer you formally an appointment as an established in the Department of beginning . |
| 7 | ‘ I know that I owe you both an explanation and an apology , ’ she said slowly . |
| 8 | Walk along the sea front from Langney to Meads ; it will take you about an hour . |
| 9 | " If I went over to the hotel now and had supper , that would give you about an hour to find a man and get ready . |
| 10 | On the costume side the addition of ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ feet strove to give them both an alien and a slightly comic appearance , again emphasising the points Whitaker wanted stressed from the script about these quizzical little xenophobics . |
| 11 | Each such pupil also receives a personalised letter reminding them of their entitlement to education and training , and guaranteeing them both an interview with an officer of the Careers Service and an offer of a place on a training scheme , in a job or in continued education . |
| 12 | Are we still an item ? ’ |
| 13 | Takes me about an hour to get it out of her . |
| 14 | Like , you know , I saw like , what really , I 'd sat there , I mean like you say , I and I admit that I odds and ends that 'll probably take me about an hour in total |
| 15 | They give them about an hour there before the curtain goes up . |
| 16 | Had he imagined it , or had Chung Hu-yan come to him only an hour back with news of another attack ? |
| 17 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |
| 18 | He was surprised to see Mrs Brocklebank and slightly more surprised to see Ben Brocklebank whom he had never absolutely believed in before , thinking him more an excuse than a man , someone Mrs B. sheltered behind when it suited her not to do something . |
| 19 | We should have driven her home an hour ago . |
| 20 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 21 | She 'd left a message for him about an hour before , within minutes of receiving a call from the foresters ' agents . |
| 22 | ‘ I expected him over an hour ago . ’ |
| 23 | His reading of Voltaire 's Philosophical Dictionary made him briefly an atheist ( Boyer beat religion back into him , to lifelong effect ) , but of more lasting consequence was his discovery of twenty-one sonnets by a Wiltshire clergyman called William Lisle Bowles ( 1762–1850 ) . |
| 24 | The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held . |
| 25 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 26 | Was he merely an opportunist who , having conquered these states during the war decided to exploit the situation to Russia 's advantage , or did he have some more grandiose scheme in mind ? |
| 27 | Nor is it only an influx into London . |
| 28 | Is it perhaps an identity taken from the white bearskin rug on his study floor ( which he first mentions in a letter to Louise Colet of August 1846 , telling her that he likes to stretch out on it during the day . |
| 29 | While I spoke like that I could pretend that Syl and his house were unreal and my projected presence in it merely an extension of that fantasy , but the wedding loomed ever closer like a rock and I , poor ship , was about to founder on it . |
| 30 | Is it just an introduction to university physics ? |