Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Lima bus station an unemployed mining engineer , who would later sting me for a few thousand intis , told me , ‘ This country , something really wrong with it . |
| 2 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 3 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 4 | We contented ourselves with a few small purchases , but will probably go there for some more serious shopping before the end of our stay in Peking , as it is obviously the best place in the country for buying touristy things . |
| 5 | There are many species , though , which with a little initial research can be easily reared by conscientious amateurs . |
| 6 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 7 | So let me leave you with a few wise words . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 9 | See if you can get our people to introduce you to a few American officers ; broaden your mind . |
| 10 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll like this one , ’ they leer , before showering me with a few priceless gems from the treasury of homophobic humour . |
| 12 | At the very least , he might leave them with a few choice phrases to remember him by . |
| 13 | Frequently , the mistaken belief is that counselling involves telling people what to do in a nice friendly way and involves educating them with a few pertinent facts in a clear , easily memorable , style . |
| 14 | Thirteen were recorded as not using an intelligence test as a determinant , though some of these used one in a few individual cases or as a qualifier . |
| 15 | She leaned back against him , revelling in the strength and warmth of his body , allowing herself for a few luxurious moments the unaccustomed joy of feeling secure in his embrace . |
| 16 | Britten 's taste in opera and his forms are generally traditional , though this means nothing beyond a few observable lineaments . |
| 17 | Mildred hopped next to him and patted him with a half visible arm . |
| 18 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 19 | Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain . |
| 20 | A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower . |
| 21 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 22 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 23 | The only option is to rinse the board in water , dry it carefully and try to line it up again on the artwork , re-exposing it for a few more minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 25 | The track along Rhossili Down 's ridge top was rough and rocky , with a wild west sort of feel to it as a few hardy-looking cattle wandered about at will on the humped and pitted pastures to the right , which my map indicated are the remains of neolithic burial chambers . |
| 26 | This is how to do it with a few extra explanations to help you understand why you are making the movements — realising why levers move often helps to set the method in the mind . |
| 27 | The horse was totally confused by now and it eased forward in the shafts not knowing what to do next , until Broomhead reminded it with a few well-chosen obscenities . |
| 28 | The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements . |
| 29 | Nicholson got nothing out of it except a few good pay days and suffered occasional touches of melancholia about his work ; he was getting ‘ old ’ and anything substantial was nowhere in sight . |
| 30 | Sounds joined in the foray by dubbing it : ‘ Nothing but a few scribbled lines and hastily arranged chords . ’ |