Example sentences of "[det] a bottle of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , within minutes , Bertha — who like her mother processed Fru Møller 's wishes almost before her employer had expressed them — arrived at the table with an ice bucket , half a bottle of non-vintage champagne and Fru Møller 's compliments . |
| 2 | On that floor they found a variety of soft drinks , and took some bottles of lemonade , soda water and Irn Bru , and also half a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |
| 3 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 4 | After a shamingly large second supper of chicken , sweetcorn and cake , a vast vodka and tonic and half a bottle of red wine , at one o'clock in the morning the chatter suddenly turned into the Frogsmore Stream running under Snow Cottage and she fell asleep until six to find the chatter going on as loud as ever . |
| 5 | Allow about half a bottle of wine per person or the equivalent in other drinks . |
| 6 | The two plain-clothes officers had drunk half a bottle of scotch and several cans of lager on the train journey from Glasgow to Telford to escort a prisoner back to Scotland , said Estelle Hindely , prosecuting . |
| 7 | In another cupboard they found half a bottle of whisky and a dribble of brandy in the bottom of a Courvoisier bottle . |
| 8 | He went downstairs to the rumpus room and rummaged behind the tiny bar , and , after digging through a seemingly endless collection of empty pop bottles , came up with half a bottle of rye and some ginger ale . |
| 9 | Horbury , of Pontypool , Gwent , admitted he drank half a bottle of whisky that night . |
| 10 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 11 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 12 | They did n't even like the editorial , which had been written by Packford on half a bottle of Scotch . |
| 13 | ‘ It were half a bottle of Evian , 12 grapes , a piece of cheese and a small tomato . |
| 14 | Full breakfast with cooked and cold dishes ; dinner at the Colosseo/Pineta or the Torre Grill , including half a bottle of house wine and mineral water . |
| 15 | For instance , the use of cannabis by the young is far more likely to be branded as ‘ drug-taking'/'drug addiction ’ and hence a ‘ social problem ’ than is the consumption of thirty cigarettes a day by adults or half a bottle of brandy by middle-class businessmen . |
| 16 | He had left as soon as he could , leaving Joe to consume half a bottle of whisky whole he raced through the backstreets , slowing to a walk only when he spotted someone approaching . |
| 17 | ‘ Half a bottle of number 32 , cooled , ’ 32 was a dry Graves , ‘ and a bottle of Evian water . ’ |
| 18 | They waited ten minutes , Paul timing it exactly on his wristwatch , then crept back to find Gittings comfortably installed on a newly delivered double bed , beginning his lunch of two fresh fish cutters and half a bottle of five-star rum . |
| 19 | She had waited behind the hedge in the front garden , ready to smuggle him into the house without alerting the neighbours , but he never arrived : she had drunk half a bottle of white wine as she waited and now felt slightly sick . |
| 20 | Anyway he must have had about half a bottle of whisky . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You do not pump out a man 's stomach because he 's drunk half a bottle of scotch , ’ said Dalziel . |
| 22 | Half a bottle of wine a day — it 's not enough but it 's something . |
| 23 | Without half a bottle of red wine inside me I might have slipped on the slimy breakwater , but I jump onto the stony beach and chase her along the shore . |
| 24 | Only when his first movement unleashed the pounding headache bequeathed to him by half a bottle of the college 's specially shipped port did he begin to regret the decision . |
| 25 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 26 | Medical experts told the court that they found cocaine and half a bottle of whisky in Kim Brockwell 's body . |
| 27 | The court also heard from medical experts who found traces of half a bottle of whisky , and cocaine in Kim 's body . |
| 28 | The doctor said : ‘ A specimen of blood showed he had drunk the equivalent of nine or ten pints of lager or half a bottle of spirits . ’ |
| 29 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 30 | top of the after shave , used about half a bottle of after shave , and he 's just gone started around , I thought he was throwing a I thought that must of well stung . |