Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 2 | Ill just go out of the house without a word , and stay at my club for a few days . |
| 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 | It is obvious , when you come to think about it , that my picture of an ever-advancing arms race was too simple in at least one respect . |
| 6 | I won my race into a 1.5 metres per second wind . |
| 7 | ‘ Stay in my flat for a few days and enjoy what you can of the Carnival . |
| 8 | 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 … ’ |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | It has been in my family for a thousand years . |
| 13 | to run for cover so I held my hand over my face for a few moments before speaking . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I remember , ’ said my mother after a few minutes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 17 | They were tipped as a recovery stock after investors had lost much of their money in a few months . |
| 18 | BOWLS players yesterday accused Darlington Council of wasting its money on a new bowls hut . |
| 19 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The DIA 's interest in them sprang from their association with a Chinese arms dealer named David King , also known as David Loo Choy , who represented the People 's Republic of China and had played a part in the North network 's illegal supply of arms to the Nicaraguan Contras in association with Monzer al-Kassar . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 24 | By July 21 another 14 people had taken refuge in the Spanish embassy , with Madrid voicing concern at the ease of their entry despite a tight police cordon ( which now also surrounded the Canadian and West German embassies ) . |
| 25 | At the same time , SunSelect also unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition . |
| 26 | Sun has the backing of ICL Plc and Fujitsu Ltd as well as Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp for Wabi and for its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it to trip up the competition . |
| 27 | At the same time , SunSelect unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it so as to trip up the competition . |
| 28 | Hardly anyone over 40 does , though they will have absorbed its influence in a hundred ways , from the design of their daily paper to the styling of the latest television lager ad and the clothes and music their children consume . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If the bedroom you occupy is large enough to be turned into a comfortable bed-sitting-room , or if you have your own private sitting-room in the house , you can avoid trouble and confrontation by entertaining friends there , and that will be the end of it ; but if not , after a tactful explanation of your needs to your parent , you should get to the point of suggesting clearly that she might agree to retire to her room for a few hours sometimes when your friends come to the home ( after you have all shared a meal together first , if she wishes ) . |