Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 2 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 3 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 4 | If the wife is unable to take a nap in the afternoon when the children are napping , then possibly there is someone who could look after them for a few hours at least one day a week for her to regain her strength . |
| 5 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 6 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 7 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 8 | We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us . |
| 9 | Throughout my life my tummy has been , as it were , my Achilles heel ; and around this same time the condition of my colon , which for the latter part of my life has had a habit of tying itself in knots , became particularly acute . |
| 10 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 11 | How do human beings distinguish which of the many elements of the context are relevant ? |
| 12 | If I want to count how many chairs there are in my college , I have little problem about deciding which of the many objects in college I am going to include in my count . |
| 13 | But she did not know which of the many doors of the hall-way was that of their bedroom . |
| 14 | examine with reference to their general compliance with these conditions , the several drawings bearing the numbers given in the enclosed list ; and to prepare a statement , giving first the Conditions which they assume to be required in the cases of each of the three classes of designs and secondly , showing whether any and which of the several sets of drawings selected fail to comply with such conditions ; and also in what respect , and to what extent , these conditions are neglected or departed from . |
| 15 | He satisfied himself with a few words of hurried consultation during a House of Commons debate . |
| 16 | McNicholl looked sharp and positive when he made his entrance in the second half against Dublin and Damien Cassidy could find himself under a little pressure as a result . |
| 17 | Sarah favours Kylie at the moment , while Tom is keen on Michelangelo , which in a few years from now will probably mean a painter again rather than a Ninja Turtle . |
| 18 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 19 | Australia , Canada , the Republic of Ireland , and the United States have nothing like the same concentration of unqualified power at the centre of government as this country has . |
| 20 | Those who were approached would almost certainly have included Trevor Glover of Penguin ( who as a former president of the Australian Book Publishers Association offered unique experience to the post ) , Paula Hahn of Longman ( who , if she had accepted , would have been the first woman president in the PA 's history ) , Simon Masters of Random House , John Clement of Chambers , Philip Sturrock of Cassell , David Young of HarperCollins , and the current treasurer , Philip Kogan of Kogan Page . |
| 21 | You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one . |
| 22 | ‘ None of the several forms of government is condemned in itself . ’ |
| 23 | The French , who throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century had used investment in Russian railways as a way of discomforting German industry , now provided the Poles with capital to continue the work the Russians had started . |
| 24 | It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb . |
| 25 | So with summer holiday time coming up we thought we 'd help the late planners among you with a few ideas on great areas to go walking . |
| 26 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 27 | A tablespoon of bran , which might provide you with the same amount of fibre , is not nearly so nutritious . |
| 28 | It creates power , it cocks your wrists to the swing plane , puts you into the same position at the top every time , and stretches the big muscles of the back . |
| 29 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 30 | But since , against the odds , Alice keeps her cellar as ‘ the perfection of cleanliness ’ , the image is pleasing and does not impose itself in the same way on the reader 's imagination . |