Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 2 | St. Katherine 's Gardens — once the site of St. Katherine 's Church of which only a few stones now remain . |
| 3 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
| 4 | ‘ Some friends of mine live a few kilometres from here . |
| 5 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 6 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 7 | Many European countries worry that the countries of the former Soviet Union , from which only a few emigrants have escaped since the second world war , could revert to their 19th-century role as big exporters of people . |
| 8 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
| 9 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 10 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |
| 11 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
| 12 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 13 | Put this list away for a while and then look at it again a few days later — are your reasons still the same ? |