Example sentences of "[prep] [det] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Almsmead , the house they had built , was big enough , she felt quite certain , for half a dozen pairs of newly married turtle-doves to lose themselves in delicious privacy whenever they chose . |
| 2 | The cause at issue right now was the planning application for half a dozen houses in the orchard attached to a cottage in the centre of the village , the property of a local farmer . |
| 3 | He used t he used t he used to take about half a dozen bottles of beer on the Saturday morning with him and that 's where he used to be in his , in his galley and he would n't move out that galley all the time . |
| 4 | For a little more many include fish treats such as half a dozen oysters in season ; waterzooi , fish cooked in a light stock and served with leeks and carrots ; a fillet of turbot or chunks of eel in a green herb sauce . |
| 5 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 6 | The cigar waved in the general direction of half a dozen kinds of salami and some boletus mushrooms . |
| 7 | As they approached the dais , she became aware that an animated discussion was taking place among a group of half a dozen dons at one end of the long table . |
| 8 | Grilled sardines , garlic mushrooms and snails can start the meal , followed by a choice of half a dozen entrées plus blackboard ideas and choices of grilled steaks . |
| 9 | Some general explanation is surely needed for such a wide distribution of such a unique facies during a comparatively short period of geological time . |
| 10 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 11 | I hesitate , but against half a dozen girls in a tiny lavatory there is no contest . |
| 12 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
| 13 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 14 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
| 15 | I ought to be married with half a dozen kids of my own . |
| 16 | He brought along his fishing tackle which he used at their Hampshire retreat , together with half a dozen books by his friend and mentor , the South African philosopher and adventurer , Sir Laurens van der Post . |
| 17 | Special attention will focus upon half a dozen versions of the Camden Town murder paintings , including the small but particularly dramatic ‘ L'affaire de Camden Town ’ ( 1908–1909 , private collection ) , the two versions of King Edward VIII ( 1936 , Beaverbrook Art Gallery and private collection ) , and the large study for ‘ The Raising of Lazarus ’ ( 1929 , Art Gallery of South Australia ) , originally executed in broad sweeps of the brush on the wallpaper of Sickert 's studio . |
| 18 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 19 | The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally . |
| 20 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 21 | The test , which at present can only be carried out in half a dozen laboratories around the world , seeks to identify an abnormal antibody in the blood of likely sufferers . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 23 | That sum equates to half a million pounds at today 's values — and this was six years before his two epic ring struggles with Barney Ross , so whatever motivated ‘ Baby Face ’ McLarnin to box Ross , it was n't poverty or money . |
| 24 | The charity aims to raise up to half a million pounds from the scheme . |
| 25 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 26 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
| 27 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 28 | Trading in sovereign loans grew from almost nothing to half a trillion dollars in less than five years . |
| 29 | Egged on by her colleagues , she pitched Sir Willie on half a million shares in OTC traded Crane Holdings , at 28p . |
| 30 | Like the Exhilarator and he owns leases on half a dozen pubs in the new dockland , and he does a bit of importing — high value stuff like furs or cars . |