Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 2 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 3 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 4 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 5 | The good thing about it was , it was only on for about an hour . |
| 6 | It 's not all good : you can never find a toothbrush in our house and you dare n't put your keys down for even an instance . |
| 7 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 8 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |
| 9 | The next day , the villagers found Babushka dead in the straw , curled up with only an ox and an ass to watch over her . |
| 10 | The purchaser will have conducted its own investigation of the vendor 's business in the negotiations which lead up to either an agreement in principle or a more formal acknowledgement of agreement by the use of heads of terms ( see Chapter 1 , page 9 ) . |
| 11 | It adds up to quite an incentive for the ‘ King of the Park ’ Kenny McKinstry who will be bidding for an unprecedented sixth victory this year , and a second in a row in his Kaliber Subaru Legacy . |
| 12 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 13 | I stuck it out for about an hour , and then could not stand another minute . |
| 14 | " Intense gunfire " broke out for about an hour near the government palace in central Algiers soon after the decree was announced , Agence France-Presse reported . |
| 15 | He goes out for about an hour on a Saturday if I , if he 's forced out I said , out oh get out please yeah they 're not the ideal things that they should be wearing , but , like because the |
| 16 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 17 | The charging light will go out after approximately an hour , when charging is complete . |
| 18 | Out of nowhere an amplifier , a Fender amplifier to be more precise , whistles pasts them and smashes into the concrete concourse in front of the hotel . |
| 19 | back in about an hour and a half 's time so erm that 's good timing actually . |
| 20 | They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about . |
| 21 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 22 | ‘ You could n't have waited half an hour — that 's all the journey from Olbia takes — and saved me the inconvenience of having to hang around for almost an hour ? ’ |
| 23 | She had been up and about for over an hour , moving slowly about her caravan , straightening the covers on the bunk , shaking the rag rug and even giving the brass on her beloved stove an early rub with metal polish . |