Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats . |
| 2 | A Home Secretary spends many hours conscientiously reading background papers which set out the whole history of a single police officer 's alleged offences , sometimes in a bundle of papers an inch thick , in order that justice and equity may be done . |
| 3 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 4 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 5 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
| 6 | In a few months Rose 's home place and Moran 's house were almost interwoven . |
| 7 | At a hundred feet Peacock 's engine failed . |