Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Oh , my dear , " said Andrew after what seemed an eternity . |
| 2 | After what seemed an eternity he moved on , casting a cursory glance across at the two men sitting on the steps outside the church . |
| 3 | ‘ After what seemed an eternity of nights with Grant turning away from me in bed , I dared to ask , ’ recalls Charlotte . |
| 4 | After what seemed an eternity the engine was restarted and gradually faded away into the night . |
| 5 | After what seemed an eternity , and was well over two hours , I felt the marsh ground underfoot change to shingle and knew that I had reached the shore . |
| 6 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 7 | After what seemed an age , Jack appeared out of the gloom and got back into the car . |
| 8 | After what seemed an age all that could be heard were little hiccups . |
| 9 | After what seemed an age , he suddenly declared , ‘ Right . |
| 10 | After what seemed an age , they came into a small room where the roof beams straddled above them like great barren trees , and the wind whistled through the tiny cracks where the moonlight shone through . |
| 11 | After what seemed an age , she felt Kattina 's open mouth close over her own , breathing quietly against her lips before licking them with her long tongue . |
| 12 | After what seemed an age , Rubber Feet moved off towards what they call the Lavatory Tower ( not what it sounds like ) , Leather Feet must have figured I 'd gone inside the Cath because he pattered off up the steps , which of course meant the end of all hopes of returning to my refuge via the Crypt . |
| 13 | After what seem an eternity , but which in reality could only have been about fifteen minutes , the paramedics from the county ambulance service arrived , and under David 's supervision the serious business of trying to lift Len out began . |
| 14 | As part of the course , she has to choose a subject of her own about which to write a paper ; one of her difficulties is to know how to form her own views , not just copy already received opinions . |
| 15 | Then , when the mean electron energy reaches about 1 MeV , it is possible for electrons to initiate neutronization reactions such as which requires a threshold energy of 3.7 MeV . |
| 16 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 17 | ( b ) Where an order is subject to a negative resolution it must be laid before Parliament ( usually for 40 days ) during which time a member can move a prayer to annul it . |
| 18 | He wore old jeans , espadrilles and a torn blue T-shirt through which spilled a lot of black chest-hair . |
| 19 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 20 | A communiqué issued on Feb. 18 by the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) denied any connection with the killing , the specific motive for which remained a mystery . |
| 21 | Above , the sun shone : a disc of pale , hazy yellow in a milky grey sky , below which unrolled a waste of glittering white . |
| 22 | At the heart of the square , 24 hours a day , old women sing hymns to a statue of the Virgin , below which hangs a list of the 14 Lithuanians killed by Soviet troops on January 13th . |
| 23 | They ended with the ‘ Declaration of Common Purpose ’ at the heart of which lay a commitment by the President to : |
| 24 | ( 2 ) That the judge 's failure to direct the jury adequately as to the defendant 's previous good character was a material misdirection which could have caused injustice to him ; that at any stage of the trial the jury were entitled to the judge 's assistance on the facts as well as on the law , the withholding of which constituted an irregularity which might , depending on the circumstances , be material ; and that the judge had erred in failing to ascertain what the jury 's problem was and to give the requisite help ( post , pp. 166C , F–G , 167G , H ) . |
| 25 | To regard these as distinct interests , each of which sustains a set of values , allows us to reformulate the question of the relative scope of holist and individualist theories which we found to be such a pressing one . |
| 26 | But if you 're expecting to import data from a PC , then first check the long list of unsupported 1-2-3 commands , each of which generates an error message on the Portfolio . |
| 27 | Suitable markers include X-autosomal reciprocal translocations such as T ( X ; 4 ) 37H or the X-autosomal insertion Is ( 1n7 ; X ) 1Ct , both of which present a marker chromosome longer than the normal longest mouse chromosome ( see ref-17 for a list of such markers ) . |
| 28 | We have seen the transported Polaroid used this way for beachside crowd shots , with results good enough to create a demand for continuous operation , and steady sales of the prints , each of which displayed a sea of upturned faces . |
| 29 | Yet they had in common healthy self-esteem and the need to form passionate personal relationships , some of which had a way of overlapping . |
| 30 | She wore one-piece khaki overalls buttoned to the throat , complete with epaulettes and button-down breast pockets , the left one of which had a name tag saying ‘ Boyd ’ . |