Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] an [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 2 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 3 | Both ships stopped for an hour while repairs were made to the launch 's engines . |
| 4 | Oh yes , at that particular time , I will tell you that once again er , that was er I was supposed to go for an interview and this was er for the er declaration of intent of , wh which was er supposed to er supposed to be given every year to both the Lothian Regional Council and the District . |
| 5 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 6 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 7 | The subcutaneous nature of the disorder allows its natural history to be followed with ease ; if we can confirm that the disease is caused by cell-mediated immune mechanisms , medical therapy might be developed as an adjunct or alternative to surgery , allowing a more conservative surgical approach with the prospect of reduced postoperative morbidity and recurrence . |
| 8 | I would be grateful if you would sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me , with the payment and contract and any other additions you would normally make as an indication that you agree to these conditions . |
| 9 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 10 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
| 11 | I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away . |
| 12 | So the same instruction would , on one model , be executed directly by hard-ware and , on another , be recognized as an extracode and interpreted by a subroutine in the supervisor . |
| 13 | The wort is then run into a copper where it is boiled for an hour or more with hops . |
| 14 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 15 | Cover with cold water , bring to the boil , simmer for an hour and then strain . |
| 16 | If a field of the data structure savedValues is used by a sub-program B , called by A , but not explicitly by A itself , then it will be listed as an input or output of B but not of A. The notation ( A|B ) means ‘ A or B ’ . |
| 17 | Burton asked for an audition and did one despite being told that all the parts were taken . |
| 18 | I have , I asked for an extension because like , in , in light of my present mathematical ne , need for seriousness , for seriously doing a hell of a lot of maths homework |
| 19 | Only 11 people turned up but the football team-sized audience asked for an encore and Charman summed it up as ‘ Good . ’ |
| 20 | Allowing play to continue for an hour if such time has been lost during the day is splendid ; but the idea must be extended to ensure that any time lost up to that hour is added on . |
| 21 | It is only intended as an example and does not necessarily indicate the best way to call the routines . |
| 22 | Moreover this , exercise is intended as an illustration and not as the presentation of a detailed proposal for a capital sharing tax . |
| 23 | He said it was not clear whether the device was intended for an animal or a person ’ . |
| 24 | The tiger-stripe silk velvet seats on Queen Anne walnut chairs , the leopard carpet , and the monumental tusks of elephants Winston bagged before the war and which now dominate the hall all combine for an effect that is whimsical rather than opulent . |
| 25 | Under the Guam agreement , however , the USA was bound to reach an agreement with Belau on financial assistance if it required land other than that already designated as an airfield and harbour . |
| 26 | Lisa would just have to cope for an hour or two . |
| 27 | They fought for an hour and it seemed that neither would have the mastery . |
| 28 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 29 | What happened was , when we 'd go there to rehearse on a Friday night , he would disappear for an hour or so . |
| 30 | Second , the speed to go through an object before it is hit out of the way must be developed . |