Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 2 | Alina had sniffled her way through half a box of Kleenex from the glove compartment , and she seemed even more disinclined toward conversation than Pete . |
| 3 | Charles smoked his way through half a packet of Gauloises while John told his story . |
| 4 | Here , as inmates with red-rimmed eyes and ash-grey faces barter items like a shirt or a spoon for half a bowl of soup , a nightmarish market economy is seen in operation . |
| 5 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 6 | Alcoholic drinks have a significant calorie content ranging from about 50 calories for a small measure of spirit to 70–130 for a glass of wine and 90–130 for half a pint of beer . |
| 7 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 8 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 9 | No sooner had you got used to being able to have the lights on whenever you wanted , than you ( or Dad ) had to trail down to the BP station with a jerry-can in your hand and beg for half a gallon of four-star . |
| 10 | The Guardian was controlled by a family trust , dominated by relations of the formidable owner-editor ( and sometime MP ) C P Scott , one of the great Liberal voices of British journalism for half a century into the 1920s . |
| 11 | He received but scant attention outside his native land for half a century after his death , but then came to be a major force who made a profound impression on both theology and philosophy . |
| 12 | For half a century after Matcham 's retirement his theatres were widely disparaged by architects and others who preferred unbuilt European projects to what the public and theatre profession still prized as ‘ real theatres ’ . |
| 13 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 14 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 15 | The interior of the cave soon admits daylight from a vertical shaft on the moor above , Little Douk pot , and then meanders in darkness for half a mile to its entrance at Middle Washfold , due south over the wall in the next allotment where an isolated outcrop of limestone makes a white scar on the dark moor . |
| 16 | From the viaduct follow the road south for half a mile to the main Enniskillen to Belleek road . |
| 17 | The party of three canoeists , aided by local walkers dragging the canoes , made its way over common land for half a mile to a car . |
| 18 | Alongside and beneath the alley , Mucky Beck rushed for half a mile past walled mill-ponds , wasteland and cinder piles all the way from Shearbridge Road to Cheshum Street . |
| 19 | It here plunges for half a mile over massive limestone steps in a wide channel flanked by trees : a beautiful sight , always impressive and , in times of spate , awesome . |
| 20 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 21 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 22 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 23 | One alcoholic drink is to be taken as half a pint of beer , one glass of wine , one small glass of sherry or one small measure of spirit . |
| 24 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |
| 25 | A possession to be treasured and for some a reminder of better times . |
| 26 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 27 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 28 | After that a visit to Jack proved most enlightening . ’ |
| 29 | He then spent three days at Fort King being questioned by people from the DIA , the FBI , the CIA and the DEA , and after that a bunch of US Marshals took him away into the Federal Witness Protection program . |
| 30 | The speaker scraped and clicked a few more times , but after half a minute of no reply the phone was rehooked . |