Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 2 | Now I 've got that off my chest I have a few questions for you : |
| 3 | Anybody wants some copies I have a few copies here . |
| 4 | For the short term I have a few suggestions . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll remember my sayin' I had a few aces up m'sleeve , when we discussed our lack of numbers an ’ the possibility of these people operatin' outside patrols ? ’ |
| 6 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 7 | This smaller team takes records to shops which have a high singles turnover and also carries the most popular current albums to top up a shop 's supply of its best-selling products . |
| 8 | For traders who want a low-risk futures position , an intracommodity spread may be attractive . |
| 9 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 10 | After the programme we exchanged a few words , but he had to dash off to another engagement . |
| 11 | Finally we give in and rent the movie we ignored a few months ago when we went to see Midnight Run . |
| 12 | After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body . |
| 13 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 14 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 15 | It would be the realised dream of a little girl who received a perfect dolls ’ house and then found herself truly able to walk into it . |
| 16 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 17 | A group of Bosnian refugees who travelled a thousand miles with a relief convoy to escape the war have started their new life in Northamptonshire . |
| 18 | Again , Jeremiah was doing the Lord 's work as a servant ; in the passage we heard a few moments ago , he expressed his dismay at the manner in which he was being treated by the people . |
| 19 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 20 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 21 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 22 | If you 're that abusive cow who wrote a few weeks back , then you can drop dead for all I care . |
| 23 | I can already hear the objections from those clubs who have a few players tied up with the Championship . |
| 24 | Just after the War I carried a few bags there . |
| 25 | Analysing his match-winning contribution he said : ‘ Prior to the match I tried a few shots from that same position with my right foot and missed . |
| 26 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 27 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |
| 28 | He said he supposed it was and offered to show them into the Intensive Care room which had a hot drinks machine . |
| 29 | The benefactor of the race would be , not a Prometheus who brings a few sparks from above , but he who releases among men the most finished of all forces , an irresistible word . ’ |
| 30 | He told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Every two years we have a renewed clothes allowance , and we found that for a very little extra we could provide our warders with these outfits . |