Example sentences of "[adv] to a [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my boyfriend who was horrorstruck and took myself off to a lesbian students ' conference . |
| 2 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 3 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 4 | So that although reference is made here to a remote children 's colony , its social significance had much wider reverberations , as indeed did the pedagogical theories worked out by Makarenko . |
| 5 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 6 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |