Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Galwey , who will be winning his tenth cap , last played for Ireland against the All Blacks last summer . |
2 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
3 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
4 | He urged the world to " address the question of Palestine by the same criteria that it had applied over the question of Kuwait " . |
5 | The first team squad were then told to get out of Glasgow for a few days , prompting a rush for the airport . |
6 | I have seen an old lighterman take a loaded barge across the Thames in the Pool of London with a few strokes of his sweep — and a canny use of the tide . |
7 | ‘ I always pop into the Prince of Wales for a few bevvies when I leave here , so does Fred . |
8 | Quietly , amid the fall-out of Saturday 's defeat of Wales by the All Blacks , the Welsh Rugby Union and the Merit Table organisation meet on Monday night to discuss the issue . |
9 | ‘ To me , it is just nice to get out of Leeds for a few weeks . |
10 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
11 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
12 | Julie Godwin , pictured above with Sophie at a few months old , was raped and killed with her holiday pal Elizabeth Over as the pair sunbathed on a beach in South Africa . |
13 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
14 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
15 | He went out with Naomi for a few minutes and then it was my turn for a little chat . |
16 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
17 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
18 | I 'd have to stay in Holyhead for a few nights . |
19 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
20 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
21 | But to the EEC this looked too much like the British proposals of the late 1950s , and it declined the overtures from EFTA for the same reasons as in the past . |
22 | Carruthers was appointed as District Geologist in charge and Dinham was also posted there from Scotland for a few years . |
23 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
24 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
25 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
26 | I was in Sydney for a few weeks , and had an affair with a broad . |
27 | Have to be in Paris for a few days . |
28 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
29 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
30 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |