Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 2 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 3 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 4 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 5 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 6 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death . |
| 9 | In Manhattan a fellow dashes about claiming he is the grandson of Balenciaga . |
| 10 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 13 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 14 | The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden . |