Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
2 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
3 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
4 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
5 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
6 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
7 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |
8 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
9 | In this buyers ' guide we cover and comment on the best ( and some we would n't give tank-space to ) and leave the reader to judge . |
10 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
11 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
12 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
13 | The young people who have caught the madness of war are , in fact , prisoners of this old men 's mentality which has charmed them . |
14 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
15 | We also published a joint declaration with the Iraqi Women 's Federation which upheld similar ideas . |
16 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |
17 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
18 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
19 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
20 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
21 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
22 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
23 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
24 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
25 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
26 | It publishes a monthly newsletter and a monthly Investors ' Handbook which builds up into a comprehensive reference manual covering all aspects of share investment . |
27 | In a re-run Senate by-election in Lublin on June 11 , the Citizens ' Committee candidate won almost 51 per cent of the vote against his opponent from Private Farmers ' Solidarity who took just over 48 per cent . |
28 | On 6 April the USA declared war on Germany and on the following 8 May a conference was held between the US Shipping Board , the US Steamship Owners and the US International Seamen 's Union which resulted in what became known as the " Atlantic Agreement " which laid down manning levels , wages and bonuses . |
29 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
30 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |