Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 2 | Then he turned to Rachel and for just a moment allowed his gaze to meet hers . |
| 3 | The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter . |
| 4 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 5 | They had played in the mound of and for over an hour . |
| 6 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 7 | He wrote articles for the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , of which he was a founder , and for long a member of council . |
| 8 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |
| 9 | Ken appreciated it and for almost a quarter of a century afterwards they would be close friends . |
| 10 | She did n't reply , and for about a minute they sat in silence , facing each other . |
| 11 | About twelve midnight the German positions in the village were over-run , and for about an hour the enemy mortaring in the farm area ceased . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 13 | The method is cheap , at £1 per wet tonne , and after almost a century of dumping , only slightly elevated levels of chlorines have been detected . |
| 14 | What follows is an examination of structure and of how an awareness by the teacher of its significance can help him find the game in the drama . |
| 15 | The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated . |
| 16 | John Robertson the schoolmaster had come ‘ trotting along from the manse , looking full of himself and with not a word to say to anyone ’ . |
| 17 | Hedges have been pulled out , stone walls pulled down , all for the sake of productivity and with not a whimper of opposition from successive governments . |
| 18 | With his hear pounding in his chest and with barely a glance at the dreaded Bogeyman 's door , he raced along the landing and down the main stairs . |
| 19 | I remember then with great affection and with quite a lot of pain . ’ |
| 20 | To date we 've printed several thousand pages of WP text , DTP and Graphics , all without a hitch , and with only a couple of paper mis-feeds . |
| 21 | The shutdown yesterday by Huddersfield 's eight main minicab firms , all Asian-owned and with only a handful of non-Asian staff , followed a fatal stabbing in the most serious incident in an outbreak of violence involving drivers and their customers . |
| 22 | In all three cases the method of construction was changed , with turf on a stone , or part-stone , platform at Brough and Rochester and with only a palisade at Caister . |
| 23 | In the larger towns many parish priests were singing the majority of their masses for the dead with no family member present and with only an altar server to chant the responses . |
| 24 | The curlicues massed at his collar and from here a series of well-defined ginger ridges ascended to his nude pate . |
| 25 | The narrow strait is Kylesku and until recently a car ferry operated across it , this providing the only possible continuation of the main road on the west side of Sutherland . |
| 26 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 27 | Then by lunchtime a line of waxy , yellow-white clouds was spotted abaft by the starboard lookout , and before long a breath of hot and humid air was wafting over a ship which , in a matter of moments — since its metal was still so cold — was dripping with condensation . |
| 28 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 29 | Fill in the blanks and in just a couple of hours you can have a fully integrated 3 year financial forecast , including Sales , Operating Expenses , P&L , Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Analysis . |
| 30 | I was interested both in how individuals develop a sense of themselves through their subject choice , and in how a world-view of a discipline is constructed at an academic and departmental level . |