Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Labour 's spokeswoman on the economy , Margaret Beckett , says the Chancellor has n't stolen her Party 's cloak , and says that if the government had taken her Party 's advice a year ago , the economy would n't have gone through half the pain it has .
2 For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts .
3 Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’
4 This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect .
5 For half the trip I sat on the floor of the plane , holding the boy 's hand , watching the drip .
6 And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day .
7 Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right .
8 For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo .
9 For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move .
10 And then for half an hour they make small talk .
11 For half an hour they talked over student days and student friends and then there was a long pause .
12 For half an hour it was scary and now it seems funny , ’ says Gordon .
13 For half an hour he took tea and biscuits with them , and discussed the problems of weight reduction through additional use of gallium worked into plutonium .
14 The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning .
15 For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career .
16 After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby .
17 For half an hour she lay on the floor in pain before they finally left with a hoard of silverware .
18 But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and
19 Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed .
20 After half a mile he decided to turn off the embankment and walk up the side of the next field and along the path at the top of it , following the horses whom he could still see in the distance .
21 After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes .
22 So Elizabeth told her everything that had happened today and after half an hour they decided to tell everyone what the they had done at the disco that night .
23 After half an hour he went off to watch the match against the Chelsea of Ian Porterfied , his erstwhile colleague .
24 After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel .
25 He had got under her skin , and after half an hour she went home alone , not content with second-best .
26 After half an hour she had to admit defeat .
27 And the amount of help you get the day before your exams -the same morning I turned round to Hilary after all the work she 'd done with me and said , " I 'm going to fail , I 'm not doing it . "
28 She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name .
29 I 'm sure the Hague Linker needed a new needle after all the work it had done .
30 After all the moving I think he wants to make this his last club . ’
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