Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] a " 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 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 3 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 4 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 5 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 6 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 7 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 8 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 13 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 14 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 15 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 16 | Their kills tend to be rich in protein , providing enough energy to sustain them for quite a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 18 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
| 19 | I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before . |
| 20 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 21 | I want to talk to you about quite a different matter . |
| 22 | But it might be as well for those of you with just a few years to go before you have to repay your loan to check with your insurance company that there 's going to be enough in the kitty to repay it . |
| 23 | So try and remember that I E one when it makes an E sound I before E except after C now that 's going to help you with quite a few words . |
| 24 | But they also know they can give you at least a bit of a chance . ’ |
| 25 | He was taller than she by only a few inches , and slenderly built , an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | But if you can get them with just a , an orange or a lemon sorbet . |
| 28 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 29 | Scott said that , having just completed writing his Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture , Present and Future , the ‘ great competition , then , found me in rather a prepared state of mind ’ . |
| 30 | The department making the greatest use of external libraries uses them on quite a regular basis , ‘ at least once a month ’ ; , and uses them to obtain any general type of information . |