Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 2 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 3 | It 's a red panda cub , one of only a handful to have been born in captivity . |
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| 5 | Bukharin thus posed the problem facing the Bolsheviks in its starkest form , a problem that was to be hotly debated for nearly a decade to come . |
| 6 | Dr David Clark , Labour 's agriculture spokesman , said : ‘ It was entirely irresponsible of the ministry to allow farmers for nearly a week to feed contaminated material to animals . |
| 7 | And so might his son have been and remained , with only a duchy to administer , but a kingdom was a different thing . |
| 8 | He outlined his plans and , with only a day to prepare , the camp erupted into activity . |
| 9 | After running a substantial international fibres business , it came as something of a cultural shock to find himself sitting in ICI 's headquarters with only a secretary to command . |
| 10 | with only a dollar to spare , one pair |
| 11 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 12 | Next on the list was the British Women 's Championship at Hoylake where she defeated Mary McKenna , Aline van der Haegen , Linzi Fletcher , Catriona Lambert and Elaine Farquharson , in that order , after having qualified for the match-play stages with only a shot to spare . |
| 13 | Lowell Bayles paid $500 for the chance to fly the aircraft and it was completed with only a week to go to the National Air Races at Cleveland . |
| 14 | John Robertson the schoolmaster had come ‘ trotting along from the manse , looking full of himself and with not a word to say to anyone ’ . |
| 15 | The goal looked good enough to give United the draw as well , but with just a minute to go they cracked . |
| 16 | Thursday 2 April With just a week to go , I start rehearsing my public reaction to the result . |
| 17 | But it was suddenly called off with just a week to go . |
| 18 | ‘ I rushed out of the bathroom with just a towel to cover myself , ’ she said after being treated for shock and cuts . |
| 19 | — Mr Coghill finished his cross examination on Thursday night with just an hour to spare before he was due at a public meeting in Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | I 'd hunch down under the covers with just an air-hole to breath through , and shelter there . |
| 21 | It seemed to withstand the onslaught of bicycles , tricycles and roller skates with scarcely a scratch to show . |
| 22 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 23 | Matthew had been at the Plaza for a week now , with scarcely a moment to call his own . |
| 24 | Early in September the four Thomas brothers were told to make ready for the journey home , where Ernest had to re-sit for his Teacher 's Certificate , and Edward was left with scarcely a month to reassure Helen of his faithfulness and to make his final preparations before beginning his historical studies with Owen M. Edwards . |
| 25 | The next Bishop of Rochester to reside here at Halling was Laurence but this is not to say that the palace was vacant during these intervening years for as we have noticed earlier monks of Rochester lived here for periods with possibly a steward to maintain the household . |
| 26 | ‘ Even while then it still had n't clicked in my brilliant brain why I was acting so , I put my foot down , and kept it there , and arrived here with about an hour to spare before your train was due in . |
| 27 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 28 | It should have been cooler in the hills , but if anything , Lindsey thought drowsily , the heat was becoming even more intense with barely a breeze to relieve it . |
| 29 | With barely a week to go before the maiden flight , Paul 's report made alarming reading . |
| 30 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |