Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [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 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 4 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 5 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 6 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 7 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 8 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 9 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample . |
| 12 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 13 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 14 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 15 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 16 | Wendell lit a cigar and puffed on it thoughtfully for a few minutes before saying , ‘ Those guardians of yours , Harry — the ones who filched your father 's legacy from you . |
| 17 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 18 | Volunteers usually act as ‘ sitters ’ caring for a client while the rest of the family is away , perhaps for a few hours for a weekly shopping trip . |
| 19 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 20 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 21 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 22 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 23 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 24 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 25 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 26 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 27 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 28 | This is an eminently Basque town and the one I would choose to stay in of the several alternatives along this coast ; it is more intimate than Bayonne , less pompous than Biarritz and livelier than Hendaye . |
| 29 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 30 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |