Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For just a minute I got gone deaf . |
| 3 | That was no jackdaw 's call — although for just a moment I had taken it to be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 6 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For nearly a year I have been here alone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 11 | For nearly a minute she could say nothing . |
| 12 | For nearly a century it was assumed that the primitive vertebrate armour consisted of scales and small polygonal bony plates . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | For about a year he 's been analysing abduction experiences , with the aim of putting together a psycho-social profile of the classic victim . |
| 16 | She did n't reply , and for about a minute they sat in silence , facing each other . |
| 17 | Seeing as we 've had those words for about a week I should think we do know them then . |
| 18 | But that was , we were standing there for about an hour I should think it was . |
| 19 | and er , this is what I , this is what I wanted , to tie to the flagpole and left him there for about an hour he had his pasting as well . |
| 20 | Er I I think I take Mr 's point that er you would n't go to well a mile it 's really going to be horses for courses is n't it ? |
| 21 | But he never forgot that for almost a year he sank like a stone and would have disappeared without trace but for outside intervention . |
| 22 | For almost a decade it has been providing courses in the art of leather carving , tooling , dyeing and stitching as well as offering craft kits for sale . |
| 23 | For almost a decade he has led a series of protest demonstrations outside abortion clinics throughout England , running foul of the law on countless occasions . |
| 24 | For almost a minute it continued , and then it stopped , as abruptly as it had begun . |
| 25 | For almost a month she had remained in the house , eating and sleeping and sitting , submitting to Lyddy 's hairbrush , practising her daily ration at the piano , performing her daily ration upon tapestry canvas , running endless little errands for Aunt Emily , trying to make her handwriting more ladylike , her movements more graceful . |
| 26 | And of course for quite a while we were from . |
| 27 | For quite a while I was pretty lonely . |
| 28 | Er well he , he went , he , he went er he was erm for quite a while he was er he had Chow dogs . |
| 29 | Miloš , however , was not interested , and after wasting Vuk 's time for over a year he let the scholar return to Austria empty-handed . |
| 30 | For over a year he underwent chemotherapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital before a scan revealed there was no trace of cancer left in his body . |