Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] an [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
2 | There is an alternative , more optimistic view that some people in education are expressing , which sees the current changes as somewhere between an irrelevance and a minor irritation in terms of their own aims and practices . |
3 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
4 | they were , they were doing a play or something and it , it mentioned about er , erm , what did it mention ? , it was a bit rude any way this play and it oh it was on about an erection or something and Geoffrey said his trousers his new trousers were sticking out a bit peculiar |
5 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
6 | so you 've turned your kilow three kilowatt heater on for an hour and I 'm gon na charge you , le let's say , thirty pence . |
7 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
8 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
9 | Well I stayed on as an orderly because they said that I could erm I could marry because er I was n't erm classed as erm tt Er I would n't pass it on to me husband , so I could marry , provided I I prevented having children for er five years , that you had to see the Doctor until The medical Doctor at Nottingham , until he pronounced you clear , you see ? |
10 | ‘ Hopefully I 'll be able to carry on as an amateur and help mum in the shop . ’ |
11 | You were the person they looked on as an authority and father figure , a trust you clearly betrayed . |
12 | I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes . |
13 | Or maybe you have a desire to ‘ expose ’ yourself in some way — perhaps as an artist or politician — but are blocking yourself through fear of humiliation or rejection ? |
14 | In 1915 it had been widened to seven yards , just large enough for an up- and down-column of trucks . |
15 | The breakdown was only for an hour and a half the lorries turned up and the breakdown was happening . |
16 | After that for six days little smoke columns seemed to be sprouting up all over the forest , now here , now there , but only for an hour or two . |
17 | ‘ Only for an hour or so , ’ said Joe . |
18 | Questions of genre , of the organization of repetition and difference , seem fundamental to television , not only as an institution and a discourse , but also as a form of subjectivity . |
19 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |
20 | Snuggling into his chair , he settled down for an hour or two 's tinkering . |
21 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
22 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
23 | They 've suggested a meeting down there but , my point i I feel that there 's no point going down for an argument cos that 's all it 's going to be . |
24 | On the other hand , social scientists can often be stimulated to develop research by a combination of not knowing enough about an area and being dissatisfied with the current state of knowledge . |
25 | It 's no good writing something down as an option unless you actually have the power to do it . |
26 | Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’ |
27 | For years , that was shrugged off merely as an aspiration or dismissed as Unionist propaganda , not to be taken literally or seriously . |
28 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
29 | In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening . |
30 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |