Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | We weighed each other up for a few moments without speaking . |
| 2 | Martin Ward got to his feet , dusting off sand , and they held each others ' eyes for a few moments without speaking . |
| 3 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 4 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 6 | But I think that in this company I can dare to make a few observations without being thought altogether gaga . |
| 7 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 8 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 9 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 10 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 11 | They sat in the car for a few minutes without speaking . |
| 12 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 13 | Stiff Little Fingers was my life when I was younger and I jumped at the idea of being able to do a few gigs without spending months away from home and having to worry about recording a new album as soon as we finished . |
| 14 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 15 | All this has happened in the absence of any balmy warm spell , just a few days without cold nights and with midday temperatures hardly as high as 50F . |
| 16 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 17 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 18 | The root form has the ability to reproduce itself by parthenogenesis several times throughout the year for a few years without passing into another form . |
| 19 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 20 | quite a few marks without you learning anything |
| 21 | If the lines are balanced you should be able to hold this position for a few seconds without the sail changing its position . |
| 22 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |
| 23 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 24 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 25 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 27 | I think we had something like eight and a half months without rain and there 's the feeling , quite often , that when we get a good summer in this country , people assume that the next summer will be just as good . |
| 28 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 29 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |