Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that he was content to stay as a house guest of Sir John Popham for quite a while , though it has been suggested he was thrown into a debtor 's prison shortly after the event . |
| 2 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 3 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 4 | She hesitated for a moment before adding in a lowered voice , ‘ She 's known Philippe for quite a while , but I do n't think she ever realised … ’ |
| 5 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 6 | Bruce added : ‘ Things had n't been going well with Phonogram for quite a while . |
| 7 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 8 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 9 | A GO-KART bought to keep kids out of trouble has been stolen from a youth centre in Cardiff after just a week . |
| 10 | I last visited Mexico for almost a month during May and June 1989 . |
| 11 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 12 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 13 | I 've known Heather for quite a while — a sort of on-and-off relationship , I suppose . |
| 14 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 15 | ‘ At least if there 's a human being there you can talk about the deal , ’ says Legal & General 's Michael Payne with just a trace of exasperation . |
| 16 | Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company . |
| 17 | You sail turnwise from the Brown Islands for about a week and there it is . |
| 18 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 19 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 20 | I 've known Newley for quite a while now . |
| 21 | It 'll take Bernard and Megan at least a year and a half to make all 59 of the instruments . |
| 22 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 23 | Chester-le-Street 's Lindsay Hardy , 15 , also won the girls race for the second year in succession , finishing 12th overall , and was surprised to beat Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew by over a minute and a half . |
| 24 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ I have been visiting North Tees for over a year now and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of staff want the trust and are looking forward to it . ’ |
| 26 | Prior to July 1 Soviet Jews had been able to leave for Israel with only a visa . |
| 27 | So we talked to him but erm we did n't actually see Mrs until about a quarter to eleven . |
| 28 | Nevertheless there is little doubt that in the cases of Frederick and Joseph at least a feeling that an enlightened ruler ought to be above merely personal and family considerations , that it was his duty to sacrifice them ruthlessly on the altar of the State , was a factor in their behaviour to their own blood relations . |
| 29 | I noticed Pemberton at least a year ago and thought what a good player he was . |
| 30 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |