Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 2 | When they reported back to the branch about the National Conference of Young Conservatives , they were questioned about just the things they had failed to notice . |
| 3 | For just a second she thought she saw a flicker of admiration in his eyes , but it was gone in a flash , leaving her to wonder if she 'd simply imagined the look . |
| 4 | For just a minute I got gone deaf . |
| 5 | That was no jackdaw 's call — although for just a moment I had taken it to be . |
| 6 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 7 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 8 | Sloman ( 1978 ) straightforwardly argues for a conscious module or sub-part view , of just the sort I have opposed to a program-level view . |
| 9 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 10 | It is programmed with a flight plan telling it how to get from a nearby ‘ way-point ’ to its target , and with a set of pictures of how the terrain it will pass over should look to its radar altimeter . |
| 11 | The main characters in the books become increasingly aware of how the society they live in is destroying life as we know it now . |
| 12 | Lane , by way of having a metaphorical dig at the greens , would later speak of how the 20-footer he needed for the outright lead had looked ‘ good in the air . ’ |
| 13 | They bring us immediately up against the complex and fundamental issue of how the images we hold of later life and ageing are put together . |
| 14 | She continued to record the details of almost every meal she cooked throughout the War but came to deplore the futility of her household routine : |
| 15 | There was a bar with no booze and a store , of sorts , where we bought some of almost every item we recognized , including carrots , processed cheese and chocolate , which tasted like cocoa-flavoured sugar . |
| 16 | In his anguished soliloquy on awaking from what he thinks has only been a dream , we see that the hypocrite has lost for ever the advantage he has had over other people . |
| 17 | After what seemed like only a doze she woke to daylight , the wind driving hail against the window with a force which threatened to break it . |
| 18 | For nearly a year I have been here alone . |
| 19 | For nearly a generation they had been resisting the introduction of written inventories of peasant obligations , whose purpose was to prevent noblemen treating serfs in the arbitrary manner to which they were accustomed . |
| 20 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 21 | For nearly a minute she could say nothing . |
| 22 | For nearly a century it was assumed that the primitive vertebrate armour consisted of scales and small polygonal bony plates . |
| 23 | I arrived in Oxfordshire with only the clothes I was standing in . |
| 24 | Hanging on the door is a dressing gown and in the wardrobe a change of clothes given to her when she arrived in the refuge with only the clothes she stood up in and a shopping bag . |
| 25 | Alone in Paris , in a foreign city on the brink of winter , penniless , hungry , with not an item I could call my own except the clothes I stood up in . |
| 26 | Where was the little girl , or er younger I do n't want to make up because , but now I feeling I 'm aged it , I should be wearing some make up here , with just a feeling we should be , when I look in the mirror oh its getting old so |
| 27 | Builder Dave Young , wife Jane and son Paul , three — who had been taking a dip in the hotel pool — were left with just the costumes they had on . |
| 28 | He was looking at Agnes with exactly the expression he would have chosen had he lived to see a woman in his club . |
| 29 | It saves money and you end up with exactly the house you want . |
| 30 | ‘ With almost every opera I 've done , the first thing is it 's announced as a failure . |