Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He darted down the passage after Twoflower , and after a few moments came to a halt with a groan . |
| 2 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 3 | Margo went from strength to strength , with bigger and better parts , but after a few years turned to acting and much later married an Australian singer/actor , Rod McLennon , and went to live in Melbourne . |
| 4 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 5 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 6 | Revenue ‘ personnel ’ ( and I use the term ‘ personnel ’ advisedly , for they ca n't be real people , can they ? ) suddenly finding themselves victims of a money-is-the-only thing-that-matters approach to life . |
| 7 | During the Second World War Dall was one of a dozen experts called to Farnborough to examine the wreckage of a V2 rocket that had crashed in Sweden on a test flight . |
| 8 | Powergen 's shares brightened 2p to 273p after a 0.3p interim dividend increase to 3.35p and is on course for a full-year profits hike to £395m ( £359m ) . |
| 9 | They want a haven for a few days to talk to some neutral listener while they conquer an impending sense of ‘ going round the bend ’ . |
| 10 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 11 | If you do find yourself in this position , with a few seconds left to the gun , consider reaching across them so that you can get clear air . |
| 12 | Moreover , he shows clearly how strategies can be grouped in terms of broad emphasis into a few types according to whether the industry is in the emergent , mature or declining phase of its life-cycle . |
| 13 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 14 | If the marriage between small businesses and financiers is to have a happy ending , the couple need more than a guiding hand from a few enthusiasts dedicated to their cause . |
| 15 | Changing from a conventional tankers splashplate to a low-trajectory nozzle is one way of making slurry spreading more environment-friendly . |
| 16 | You should enquire what the rules are and additionally , to give you a better idea of what size pension you might realistically expect , you could ask for some practical examples — say , over the last five years — of retired individuals in a similar earnings bracket to your own . |
| 17 | It asked that members of the Republican Movement be permitted to take part in a civil rights march to Dungannon from Coalisland … |
| 18 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 19 | The real reason for her lack of promotion , she knew , would never in a million years occur to him . |
| 20 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 21 | A lovely path goes up alongside amongst trees and in a few minutes leads to the open corrie and an impressive mountain scene : directly ahead is Beinn Dearg , the high mass on the left is Beinn Alligin and on the right is the last satellite of the Liathach range . |
| 22 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |