Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 2 | She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables . |
| 3 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 4 | I 'd like to start before I explain that , just to refer to a few comments that Mr made . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I try not to stay with the same methods . |
| 6 | So let's have about six different characters , before we do it I 'd like you need drafting books , just to think of a few questions that you would ask the characters . |
| 7 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 8 | Nurse Eileen Farragher said : ‘ Physically he 'll be okay to go back to work in a few weeks — but mentally he 's still shocked . ’ |
| 9 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 10 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |
| 11 | The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’ |
| 12 | She used to come down here from London , sometimes just for a meal , sometimes to unwind for a few days , sometimes with some young swain or other , sometimes on her own . |
| 13 | Most large towns in Britain with sizable Asian communities have three or four resident hakims , and an unknown number visit Britain from abroad to practise for a few weeks several times a year . |
| 14 | I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion . |
| 15 | He would be coming round to collect in a few minutes ' time . |