Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was n't driving for an hour , you were n't following me for either an hour or forty miles .
2 I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while .
3 Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened .
4 I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year .
5 It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for !
6 Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so .
7 They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them .
8 ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year .
9 People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’
10 I watch them for quite a while .
11 ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while .
12 You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’
13 I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’
14 Only when she looked down , fixing upon her own feet , had she at least the illusion of vision .
15 But they also know they can give you at least a bit of a chance . ’
16 Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ .
17 The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance .
18 The most pessimistic view is that the process of ‘ deprofessionalization ’ of teachers will become almost complete , leaving them with virtually no autonomy , no scope for exercising their judgement and expressing their interests through their teaching .
19 Got me in nowhere the end of the road
20 Viewers usually only see me from above the bump up . ’
21 Right you take them in there the table .
22 ‘ But we limited them to just a couple of chances .
23 ‘ Sacked me without even a bonus , ’ she complained .
24 Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now .
25 Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married .
26 No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began .
27 She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm .
28 ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm .
29 Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw .
30 I 'm taking him for about an hour .
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