Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
| 2 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 3 | I was n't driving for an hour , you were n't following me for either an hour or forty miles . |
| 4 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 5 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 6 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 7 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 8 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 9 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 10 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 11 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 13 | He took time out to talk to me about how an organisation with a celebrated history was coping with the challenges of the modern motoring world . |
| 14 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
| 15 | Many girls spoke to me of how a fear of being raped or ‘ hassled ’ affected the way they dressed and how they felt about their looks and bodies . |
| 16 | The images of Führer and Party , which for almost a decade after the ‘ seizure of power ’ had been largely separate and even diametrically opposed , were now starting to blur in public consciousness . |
| 17 | ROBIN Reid guaranteed himself at least a bronze medal when he reached the semi-finals in boxing 's light-middleweight division . |
| 18 | However , when these differences were revealed it was difficult to know which side feared cancelling the project most — ironically it might be the donor with its vested interest in a cumulative increase in annual disbursements , rather than the government with several hundred projects of which at least a half could be in the same state . |
| 19 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 20 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 21 | He gestured towards the door , where Hilary Frome was standing , flaunting his fair hair and profile , and looking still more like an illustration of one of Baden Powell 's scouting manuals ; a fine specimen of British boyhood , who in only a matter of a year or two might be imagined assuming the burden of Empire , and administering imperial justice with rod and gun to one or other of the lesser breeds without the law . |
| 22 | But they also know they can give you at least a bit of a chance . ’ |
| 23 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 24 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 25 | After all , as Lanier says ; ‘ This is something — and we have n't had a something for quite a while . ’ |
| 26 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 27 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
| 29 | to do an E C G on this man , well I had n't done one for quite a while and I 'd forgot really , not forgot what to do but I 'm not very familiar with the E C G machines because it 's a new electronic machine and its |
| 30 | Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it . |