Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | could you leave my tea-bag in there a bit longer , . |
| 2 | He held my gaze for just a fraction longer than you 'd expect , and I was certain then that underneath his professional front he was interested in me . |
| 3 | You 're my ideal of how a man should be … ’ |
| 4 | I refused to see my counsellor for almost a month . |
| 5 | The man who was now pumping my hand with just a little too much fervour was completely bald . |
| 6 | No , cos I I have n't used my camera for over a year and it 's been fucking flung out from S A and all sorts . |
| 7 | Jenny my guest at about a quarter past eleven . |
| 8 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
| 9 | LAGAN Valley Hospital can nearly double its workload with only a slight increase in costs , a public meeting has heard . |
| 10 | LAGAN Valley Hospital can nearly double its workload with only a slight increase in costs , a public meeting was told today . |
| 11 | Driver Helen Challoner who was passed by bike and car estimated their speed at around a hundred mills an hour and said there was no more than a car 's length between them . |
| 12 | Moderator I 'm going to ask the general assembly to turn their mind to quite a different subject now . |
| 13 | This example might seem unrealistically pessimistic , as a new band may feel confident of being able to record and release their album in just a few months , with money from sales and royalties quickly starting to now in . |
| 14 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 15 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
| 16 | Feeling grubby , and , she had to admit , starving hungry , and not at all liking the idea of hiding in her room with only a rumbling tummy for company , she had a quick wash , then changed into clean clothes . |
| 17 | The British have been alone on their island for over a thousand years , without successful invasion . |
| 18 | Following their success with both A Room with a View and Maurice , Ismail Merchant and James Ivory complete their E M Forster hat-trick in customary style . |
| 19 | The wild form of this bird , the rock dove , is not a great traveller and spends its life within quite a small home range . |
| 20 | Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take . |
| 21 | In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality . |
| 22 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 23 | Her step slowed and she was about to turn round to voice some rejoinder but continued on , gripping the child 's hand hard now and stepping up her walk into almost a trot . |
| 24 | Near its edge the dark , wet sand was a sheen on which footsteps kept their shape for only a minute or two . |
| 25 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 26 | During most of its lifetime of about a billion years , the star will generate heat at its center by converting oxygen into helium . |
| 27 | My hands got very cold too , but my mother helped me every morning by baking two potatoes in their skins for me to keep in my pockets ; they retained their heat for quite a long time . |
| 28 | You sort of quite a nice spot for houses really just up the top there . |
| 29 | Thus his/her appreciation of perhaps a landscape , but the dismissal of , say , a Pollock or Mondrian . |
| 30 | You can make it different like and make it sort of still a dance area . |