Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 2 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 3 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
| 4 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 5 | A sailor stood beside the captain , behind them a dozen men in jungle fatigues and black berets . |
| 6 | Mr Deng 's dash for rural freedom began in villages like one a few miles outside Chengdu , Sichuan 's capital . |
| 7 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 8 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
| 9 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 10 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |
| 11 | I 've got some bits in there for her a few kittens in there for a couple of days I , so they 'd go up , pick them up and they get left |
| 12 | There are , after all , even larger numbers : 10 46 , for instance , is not just larger ; you must add 10 40 to itself a million times in order to obtain 10 46 What if we could somehow muster a gang of 10 46 monkeys each with its own typewriter ? |
| 13 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 14 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 15 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 16 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |