Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [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 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | How do human beings distinguish which of the many elements of the context are relevant ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But she did not know which of the many doors of the hall-way was that of their bedroom . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He satisfied himself with a few words of hurried consultation during a House of Commons debate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ None of the several forms of government is condemned in itself . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Our Discovery Tour of Sri Lanka will introduce you to the many wonders of this harmonious land . |
| 19 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 20 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 21 | Similarly , er we have actually er taken something of the same attitudes towards windfall sites within the urban areas . |
| 22 | No Newminster is the one along Midford road the one in the same grounds at Chantry |
| 23 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 24 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 25 | Come back to me in a few weeks with another research proposal . |
| 26 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 27 | Most pay them on the same rates of pay , but because they lack seniority and are usually filling low-skilled , entry-level positions , seasonal workers ' actual earnings are usually lower than those of comparable regular workers . |
| 28 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 29 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 30 | Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard . |