Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 2 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 3 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 4 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 5 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 6 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 7 | Their kills tend to be rich in protein , providing enough energy to sustain them for quite a long time . |
| 8 | I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before . |
| 9 | I want to talk to you about quite a different matter . |
| 10 | But it might be as well for those of you with just a few years to go before you have to repay your loan to check with your insurance company that there 's going to be enough in the kitty to repay it . |
| 11 | So try and remember that I E one when it makes an E sound I before E except after C now that 's going to help you with quite a few words . |
| 12 | He was taller than she by only a few inches , and slenderly built , an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords . |
| 13 | Scott said that , having just completed writing his Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture , Present and Future , the ‘ great competition , then , found me in rather a prepared state of mind ’ . |
| 14 | The department making the greatest use of external libraries uses them on quite a regular basis , ‘ at least once a month ’ ; , and uses them to obtain any general type of information . |
| 15 | The King had settled himself into such a groove of petulant determination that there was no question of the rejection of the bargain deflecting him for even a few days . |
| 16 | She was n't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing she dared not be alone with him for even a few minutes . |
| 17 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 18 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 19 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 20 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 21 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 22 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
| 23 | They did little , however , and Grubb took over the ride again last November , but has taken him to only a few shows , mostly indoor , in which Ever has been extremely consistent . |
| 24 | I can remember seeing him on quite a poor peg on the River Trent at Winthorpe , giving a super display of distance stickfloat fishing , still one of the hardest techniques to master . |
| 25 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 26 | " Take him at least a hundred meters into the jungle , " he yelled as he swung the cane across their shoulders one last time to urge them in among the trees . |
| 27 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
| 28 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
| 29 | Erm , and I have no side effects to it , I 've been on it for quite a long while . |
| 30 | At the time of the contrasting attentions given to the ball at Lord 's in 1930 it was worth polishing it during only a few early overs . |