Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
32 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
33 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
34 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
35 | goes to her for quite a while and she was saying , Oh I do n't think Shavina likes me . |
36 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
37 | I was with her for about an hour . |
38 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
39 | She walked over to the rail and leant her forearms on it as she stared across the river , and drew in a shuddery little breath , hating the fact that Luke could make her so aware of him with just a look . |
40 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
41 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
42 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
43 | She owed him at least a chance to explain , and decided to drop into his offices on her way to the shop . |
44 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
45 | Termination of the agreement by the HP finance company if the consumer stopped paying was allowed only if he had disregarded a default notice allowing him at least a week to pay up . |
46 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |
47 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
48 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
49 | You have n't owned it for over a year . |
50 | After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed . |
51 | Moyer spoke in support of it for almost an hour . |
52 | I lose count of the lengths ; she 's at it for almost an hour , with her mind as empty as she can make it . |
53 | Even if you think you 're only h leaving it for only a minute . |
54 | It is a surprising answer , and we have known and understood it for only a century or so . |
55 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
56 | He took it , but held it for only a moment . |
57 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
58 | I mean when I moved I had stuff in here before the upstairs was used , I had it for about a year or so , before I opened it up . |
59 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
60 | Erm he 's had it for about a week and a half now . |