Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South-East Gully can be entered from a lower point , so dispensing with a few feet of scrambling above the climbs . |
| 2 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 4 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 5 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 6 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |
| 7 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 8 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale , even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 9 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 10 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 11 | I 'm just visiting for a few days . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 13 | Retreating to her bedroom , flinging things into her suitcase , she was furious to find that tears were pricking the backs of her eyes , and her heart felt as if it might be slowly breaking into a million pieces … |
| 14 | More typically , the individual child stands at the teacher 's desk , muttering or stentoriously chanting for a few minutes , until checked by the ticking of a card which is slipped into the reading book at the page he or she has reached , or is expected to reach " by next time " . |
| 15 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 16 | Lot number seventeen Lot seventeen , the glass snuff-bottle snuff-bottle there showing at a hundred pounds for this , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds , any more at one hundred only , at one hundred all done ? |
| 17 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |