Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 2 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 3 | Soon after the match we were strolling companionably through the handsome streets of the town , past a striking collection of houses and shops built from the mellow , biscuit-coloured local stone . |
| 4 | Most of us , male and female , will find a place somewhere between the two ends of that continuum . |
| 5 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 6 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 7 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 8 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 9 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 10 | So he told her a little about the early months of the war ; of the friendship and the camaraderie , of the optimistic feeling of the times . |
| 11 | This creates the dilemma illustrated in the project discussed above , of appearing to meet local needs when in fact such actions do little about the real causes of social problems and may indeed aggravate them by uprooting local leaders . |
| 12 | On a more positive note , the sole practitioner generally needs to care little about the financial decisions of his colleagues and how they might affect his income . |
| 13 | To see the relevance of this , it is first necessary to know a little about the various ways in which genes are arranged in organisms . |
| 14 | We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country . |
| 15 | Soon the car was moving slowly through the snowy streets of the town . |
| 16 | Thus NEP as a monetary phenomenon took time to seep slowly through the various levels of society , just as pistoles and écus had competed with the franc in the French provinces after that other great revolution . |
| 17 | Athelstan picked up his leather bag , marched out of the tavern , collected Philomel and made his way slowly through the empty streets to London Bridge . |
| 18 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 19 | This process of learning takes place more rapidly and intensely during the early years of childhood than in later life . |
| 20 | So Kalmu was launched on a highly successful career as a shamanistic seer and miracle-worker which enabled him to acquire both wealth and power and hence to compensate very effectively for the severe disabilities under which he laboured on account of his low caste origins . |
| 21 | People are n't going to request your record unless they have heard of it , and finally , they wo n't have heard of your record unless it has been promoted properly through the usual channels of TV , radio , music press , national press and live shows . |
| 22 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 23 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 24 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 25 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 26 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 27 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 28 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 29 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 30 | The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine . |