Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile , and then turned down a lane on the left . |
| 2 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 3 | Vernon remained silent for perhaps half a minute . |
| 4 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |
| 5 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 6 | The hours of London tailors were fixed by statute , but the journeymen could still complain that the masters called upon them for only half a day , leaving them in their public houses all morning . |
| 7 | You have met the little beast for only half an hour and her father has known her all her life ! ’ |
| 8 | And one day there will be a case , one which even you will believe , of a sailor lost in a whale 's mouth and recovered from its belly ; maybe not after half a day , perhaps after only half an hour . |
| 9 | Some of the crew puffing after only half an hour or so , which is n't surprising as the only exercise they take in the normal run of things is putting their legs under a table and aiming their snouts at the trough . |
| 10 | After just half an hour in the pool , it was back to the troubled waters of the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | So , after nearly half a century of keeping its head down , it is beginning to take a higher profile abroad . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Betty after about half a minute . |
| 13 | After about half an hour , Jane reappeared . |
| 14 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 15 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 16 | After about half an hour , the shooting died down and someone helped me inside the Cathedral . |
| 17 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 18 | After maybe half a minute , the door was opened and Carson was hit by the rise in the music level and a sickly aroma which billowed out around him . |
| 19 | After around half a mile branch right to cross the Mellte above the Upper Clungwyn Falls . |
| 20 | We now have a general date for elections in nineteen ninety four and when that date is formally agreed , many sanctions will go and we 're already preparing because Cosatu and the South African Council of Churches believe that there should be a code for investments so that investments go to help uplift people and indeed tomorrow I have to go to Holland for exactly such a conference called by the World Council of Churches and the South African churches . |
| 21 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 22 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 23 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 24 | Perhaps Madame had waited for just such a night . |
| 25 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 26 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 27 | Uptown , additional space comes from the Monitor Building , which has been cleared of offices , and from the new ten-storey Tower , designed by Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel and raised on foundations laid by the museum 's architect Frank Lloyd Wright for just such a purpose . |
| 28 | They were posing for just such a photocall at Klosters in February 1986 , when the photographers suddenly noticed another figure standing in the background , dressed in a Davy Crockett-style fur headband . |
| 29 | Barlow ( 1985 ) has argued very strongly for just such a model . |
| 30 | The 19th-century German economist Friedrich List argued for just such a policy to build the emerging German empire : in the same way , the manipulation of the economy would be used for political nation-building , and it would inevitably be controlled by the most powerful country , if not deliberately , then by default . |