Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 2 | Lewis had backed the car a few feet down the ramp and was about to turn towards the Cherwell Arms when he heard his master 's voice — a single hissed and incredulous blasphemy : |
| 3 | For stomach curls you lie on your back on the floor , bend your knees upwards slightly ( while keeping your feet on the floor ) , then lift your head and shoulders a few inches off the floor ( do not use your hands or arms to support your weight ) . |
| 4 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 5 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 6 | She followed Edgar a few paces across the room . |
| 7 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 8 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 9 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 10 | Trent pinched Golden Girl a few degrees into the wind as the motor yacht rose to a swell which ran down her side in a flowing cascade of phosphorescence . |
| 11 | Elder Seth had known Gibbon , and apparently given the Englishman a few insights into the fragility of civilization . |
| 12 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 13 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 14 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 15 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 16 | These comments , coming from the NRA 's senior scientist a few days before the Government 's Green Bill is due to be published , add more problems to the rough passage already faced by the legislation . |
| 17 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 18 | Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . |
| 19 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
| 20 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 21 | Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden . |
| 23 | Max now exposed Kemp 's torso and heaved the corpse a few inches off the table . |
| 24 | It was headed by Det Supt Bill Coady , who sat grim-faced with fellow detectives in the court a few feet from the dock as the verdicts were announced , to gasps from the court 's public gallery . |
| 25 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 26 | On one occasion when our boys were returning in the basket lift , which was the only way of reaching the top platform of a rig from sea level , the crane driver had temporarily suspended out crew a few inches above the water in mock punishment for their temerity in fining him . |
| 27 | Rushing Wild 's jockey , Richard Dunwoody , gave Dwyer a pat on the back a few yards after the winning post . |
| 28 | Gordon included in his presentation a few shots of the journey through the UK to join the tour and some tram photographs . |
| 29 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 30 | Last night rescuers used airbags to prise the wreck a few inches off the ground . |