Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 2 | The professional officers , particularly when organised through a chief officers ' team , as advocated by the Bains Committee , and led by a chief executive officer can provide a formidable obstacle to councillors intent on policy innovation that goes against conventional assumptions . |
| 3 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 4 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 5 | Trade creditors , including Western Digital Corp , Seagate Technology Inc , Microsoft Corp , IBM Corp , Conner Peripherals Inc and Quantum Corp , have been operating as an unofficial creditors ' committee and are expected to become members of the Official Committee . |
| 6 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 7 | This perennial plant 's big , bold , green clumps , measuring 90cm/3ft high and the same in diameter , grow even bigger and more productive before they deteriorate after a few years ' growth , and are then best replaced . |
| 8 | On the fourth and last day we land in paradise : 45 Sandford Road , Dublin , the home of Helen Dillon , a gardener whose plants are encouraged and castigated like a wayward infants ' class . |
| 9 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 10 | A small army of workers will be moving into C&A to start shop fitting in a few weeks ' time . |
| 11 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 12 | Why do the Government continue to extol the virtues of this obnoxious Gummerburger food culture instead of instituting an independent food standards agency as the Labour Government will do in a few weeks ' time ? |
| 13 | After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 . |
| 14 | RICE wines made from a recipe given last year were presented at an annual members ' judging evening of the Alresford and District Wine Circle at the John Pearson Hall last week . |
| 15 | Appropriately enough , one station in Canada , Harriston , Ontario , has been reused as a senior citizens ' recreation centre . |
| 16 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 17 | For the Community as a whole , the Maastricht agreement and all its areas — including the social provisions , which the others will accept outside the treaty on the basis of a separate protocol to be agreed in a few months ' time — were the significant aspect . |
| 18 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 19 | Backpackers must make adjustments — quite easy to do with a few days ' walking under your belt , not so simple when your planning trips in your living room . |
| 20 | They said Labour had squandered a golden opportunity to improve part of the town centre which could be hard hit when the new Cornmill Centre opens in a few months ' time . |
| 21 | His greatest successes came on the cup front , scoring the goal that took the FA Cup to the Bridge in 1970 ( the only time Chelsea have won it ) , and the following season sharing in a European Cup-Winners ' Cup replay triumph over Real Madrid . |
| 22 | There was the Masters ' Room on the ground floor — they took it out to put in a new directors ' lift — and whenever one of our ships docked in London her master would come for a drink and a chat with Mr.Andrew — like a sort of club , it was . |
| 23 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 24 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 25 | All finalists will be invited to a spectacular winners ' reception in London in September . |
| 26 | During the latter half of 1990 intercommunal and linguistic tensions were again raised by a long-running teachers ' strike which from September severely disrupted both state and private schools in French-speaking Wallonia , where teachers were demanding pay increases in line with those paid in ( more prosperous ) Flanders . |
| 27 | The individual trials lasted no more than five minutes each followed by a few minutes ' deliberation . |
| 28 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |
| 29 | But with winnings of 145,000 he will always be remembered as a true punters ' champion . |
| 30 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |