Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ill just go out of the house without a word , and stay at my club for a few days . |
| 2 | At least the manager did n't pounce on me just because I shut my eyes for a few moments . ’ |
| 3 | I have almost no social life , free only when my disabled mother can manage my child for a few hours . |
| 4 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 5 | ‘ Stay in my flat for a few days and enjoy what you can of the Carnival . |
| 6 | I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’ |
| 7 | I have to drop the work on the catalogue and get into my studio for a few hours each day to carry further a painting which began as a request : it is called ‘ War Games ’ . |
| 8 | I picked up the file and stood with it in my hands for a few minutes before deciding whether to examine its contents . |
| 9 | She lies on top of me , breathing hard , head on my shoulder for a few minutes , then she stirs , pulls herself up so that I flop out of her and her hard little nipples stroke my chest . |
| 10 | My Lords in a few minutes the House will have to vote on this issue . |
| 11 | She 'd called him Sage , and she only stayed at my house for a few minutes as she had to get right back to see her new baby — the owl , of course . |
| 12 | to run for cover so I held my hand over my face for a few moments before speaking . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I remember , ’ said my mother after a few minutes . |
| 14 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 15 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 16 | The compensation claim was of symbolic importance to the Sandinistas and followed a 1986 ruling by the International Court of Justice that the US had broken international law and had committed illegal acts in its support of the former contras . |
| 17 | They were tipped as a recovery stock after investors had lost much of their money in a few months . |
| 18 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 19 | They talked about their plans for a few minutes . |
| 20 | He echoed her words of a few moments before , and the jarring note of triumph in his voice rang a warning bell somewhere in Shannon 's mind . |
| 21 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 22 | So it can only be human failure I E that she was driving and just sort of lost her concentration for a few seconds and that was fatal |
| 23 | In 1984 there was considerable publicity concerning a woman who gouged out her eye and another who slashed her breast in order to get out of her cell for a few minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Never , in my life , ’ he murmured distractedly , leaving her mouth for a few seconds to hungrily kiss her cheekbone , her temple , to lightly nip the lobe of her ear , ‘ have I met a woman so obstinate , so pigheaded … ’ |
| 25 | … on the physical resource of water in all its spatial and temporal inequalities of occurrence , and by its conceptualization of the many systems subsumed under the hydrological cycle … |
| 26 | Nick Price says that point to point is just like the cheltenham gold cup … its run under the same rules as the grand national … the big difference is that this is amateur … totally amateur … but its a boom sport and very popular in this area |
| 27 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 28 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 29 | In this way the youngsters make it clear that they are not yet mature enough to be considered rivals for territories or breeding partners and are allowed to feed on the reef beside their parents for the several months that it takes them to grow to maturity . |
| 30 | Oliver Napier of the Alliance party thereupon wrote an open letter to the people of the Republic calling their attention to the same matters . |