Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 2 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 3 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 4 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 5 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 6 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 7 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 9 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
| 10 | Many girls spoke to me of how a fear of being raped or ‘ hassled ’ affected the way they dressed and how they felt about their looks and bodies . |
| 11 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 12 | But they also know they can give you at least a bit of a chance . ’ |
| 13 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 14 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 15 | ‘ But we limited them to just a couple of chances . |
| 16 | ‘ Sacked me without even a bonus , ’ she complained . |
| 17 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 18 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 19 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 20 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |
| 22 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 23 | Her granny , who had been a Brownie Guider a long time ago , had told her about how a Brownie smiles instead of crying when in trouble . |
| 24 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 25 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 28 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 29 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
| 30 | goes to her for quite a while and she was saying , Oh I do n't think Shavina likes me . |