Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] within [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came within an ace of slapping her around . |
| 2 | Once , I came within an ace of the end |
| 3 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 4 | Mr Barker said he had n't insisted that the customer should produce a banker 's card because she lived within a few doors of the shop . |
| 5 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 6 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 7 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 8 | As she came within a block of Marlin 's building she remembered something she 'd utterly put out of her head for that six-year span . |
| 9 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 10 | She was suffering from sunstroke and she died within a short time . |
| 11 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 12 | Her grandmother lived close to Chernobyl and received a large dose of radiation — she died within the year . |
| 13 | Her career was unusual in that she remained within the Customer Service Department throughout , becoming an expert in dealing with complaints . |
| 14 | This was followed by the ‘ Stay Low ’ campaign , which pursued the now heretical approach that if you had to drink , then you could but make sure you stayed within the limit . |
| 15 | I had the almost childish impression that if we kept within the pools of light everything would be fine but , beyond the flames , shadows lurked and powers even darker waited to catch you by the throat . |
| 16 | Apart from the occasional drunken foray into heterosexual foreplay , we remained within the girls together fold in all other areas of our social and domestic lives . |
| 17 | I personally believe Labour could get the devalued exchange rate we wanted within the ERM if we put our foot down . |
| 18 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 19 | Both will be greatly missed by the large number of friends they made within the building industry and in many other walks of life . |
| 20 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 21 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |
| 22 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 23 | The celebrations had a particular relevance in 1990 as they occurred within a context of deteriorating relations between Cuba and the USA resulting from the activities of Television Martí , a new Florida-based , Spanish-speaking television station created to beam anti-Castro propaganda at Cuba . |
| 24 | Without exception they had liked the role they played within the classroom and a remark by Joanne sums up how they felt about the more pupil-centred approach : |
| 25 | THERE are only six Leicester Riders left in the saddle , but yesterday they came within a basket of carrying off the weekend 's biggest surprise . |
| 26 | They came within a week of the leaking of a US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) document , compiled by an agent in Panama investigating a cocaine-smuggling operation , which named more than 20 companies registered by President Endara 's law firm . |
| 27 | She waited breathlessly , pressed closely into a recess in the outer wall , straining her eyes to catch a glimpse of the men as they came within the orbit of the flambeau . |
| 28 | It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings . |
| 29 | Glasgow ambulance staff yesterday voted to observe TUC guidelines after management had warned that those on patient transfer would have their pay docked by three quarters unless they worked normally , and accident and emergency staff would lose half their pay unless they worked within the guidelines . |
| 30 | They lay within the cracked rocks like the jam in a crazy sponge cake . |