Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or him that thought more than a handful |
| 2 | ‘ So what 's it to be ? ’ he asked in clipped tones that held more than a hint of impatience . |
| 3 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 4 | In the extreme case , a consumer who bought a one-bar electric fire for thirty shillings and paid less than a penny per hour for the electricity at peak time , imposed costs on the Electricity Boards of at least £60 for the kW of power station capacity needed to meet the demand . |
| 5 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 6 | She gave her mother fifteen shillings for her keep , and had more than a pound left to spend on herself . |
| 7 | The pellet entered her nose , bounced from a bone and ended less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of her right eye . |
| 8 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 9 | His eyes , dark as bottomless pools , were hard to read , but held more than a trace of cynicism . |
| 10 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was a fraction down at $1.6020 but gained more than a pfennig to DM2.7760 . |