Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 2 | Cheshire is actually sold when it is one to two months old , but it can be matured for over a year . |
| 3 | As Ascension Day is always on a weekday , the passers-by on their way to work are able to enjoy the singing which , as the church itself is on very high ground , can be heard for quite a distance . |
| 4 | The effect that evening was that it hurt , especially as my supper was delayed for over an hour by blocked jets . |
| 5 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
| 6 | Both women died instantly but Mark , who was trapped for almost an hour in the wreckage , was taken to Wexham Park Hospital , Slough , Berks , with severe chest and leg injuries . |
| 7 | She had sat for maybe an hour , in an almost trancelike state , then she heard a rustling and approaching footsteps . |
| 8 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 9 | While the latter seems the most likely cause in many blends where specific interactions have been identified , miscible blends can also be obtained when certain statistical copolymers are mixed with either a homopolymer , or another copolymer , in which no such interactions have been located . |
| 10 | A complete feeling of misery swept over Robyn , mixed with just a hint of panic , as she really began to despair that she had read her own instructions correctly and would never reach the barn or even civilisation again . |
| 11 | Thus the GSM pre-filter which it is claimed with just a litre of Siporax will not just filter , but perform complete filtration for 20 fish 12″ long , and with room for three litres will filter to 70 fish 12″ long . |
| 12 | Caught with neither a foundation , nor a thought-through framework for their faith , they find university-level questions puncturing their Sunday-school-level faith . |
| 13 | New compact five-speed manual and four-speed automatic gearboxes are mated to either a 135bhp multivalve 2-litre engine or the smooth and powerful 170bhp 3-litre V6 unit . |
| 14 | Ah , ‘ t is a sorry pass we are come to when a lady is robbed of the clothes on her back . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She 's really come on quite a lot this season with the help of Alison Midsummer , ’ said Dolly 's mother with modest pride . |
| 16 | In 1907 local cooperative branches were petitioned to forward a resolution to congress in support of the women 's franchise . |
| 17 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 18 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 19 | To offer such intercession is considered at least a presumption and at worst occultist , using the magic of candles . |
| 20 | Once again this attitude to the natural environment was essentially pragmatic ; farming involves replacing complex , natural biological communities with simplified , artificial systems dominated by only a handful of species . |
| 21 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 22 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 23 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 24 | In an elegant and scholarly catalogue entry , Christie 's included a reproduction of the relevant pages from the catalogue of the Aumont sale which lasted nine days and was preceded by nearly a month 's viewing . |
| 25 | But the test was sat by only a handful of pupils because of a boycott by teaching unions . |
| 26 | THE cost of telephoning Europe will be slashed by almost a quarter throughout January . |
| 27 | He had n't known where to go , but he had a good instinct for direct , and he 'd reckoned as how a gateway had to be in the shell , far away from the heat sink as could be . |
| 28 | Fortunately it was a price she could afford , and she had made the arrangements , coming back to her room to eat the best meal and sleep the best sleep she had done for quite a while . |
| 29 | Back here , his chance at Edgbaston , where last season he was selected for only a couple of first-class fixtures , came because Dermot Reeve was injured . |
| 30 | ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’ |