Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ I always pop into the Prince of Wales for a few bevvies when I leave here , so does Fred . |
| 3 | Murray , from Musselburgh , has returned to Tucson where she is staying at the University of Arizona with a former Musselburgh Grammar PE teacher , Meg Ritchie , the head strength coach there . |
| 4 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 5 | He also agrees to my request to take Fairfax on board as historical adviser and fixes a meeting in London in a few weeks to review progress . |
| 6 | Whittaker says there was a five-month search for Archie Norman 's successor but admits that his and Mulcahy 's knowledge of Kerr-Muir as a former competitor at Tate & Lyle was ‘ quite helpful ’ . |
| 7 | Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ . |
| 8 | But roots will out and this month she makes a triumphal re-entry to SoHo in a former high-ceilinged , window-fronted exercise studio directly across from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street . |
| 9 | Arrows indicate the C α- C' of CsA in a that corresponds to the N-C' bond of the tetrapeptide substrate in b . |
| 10 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 11 | Arriving by road from Bodmin in an all day journey delayed by early morning loading difficulties and resultant time and route restrictions into Devon , the NRM loco finally arrived just before 8.00 pm . |
| 12 | I have seen an old lighterman take a loaded barge across the Thames in the Pool of London with a few strokes of his sweep — and a canny use of the tide . |
| 13 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 14 | The non-governmental Straits Exchange Foundation ( SEF ) on Jan. 5 protested over the detention in China of a former mainland air force pilot , Lee Hsien-pin , who had defected to Taiwan in 1965 . |
| 15 | The steps would be : ( i ) the drafting by CODESA within a few months of a constitution for a transitional government ; ( ii ) a national referendum on the transitional constitution , probably before the end of the year ; ( iii ) a general election to choose a new multiracial parliament and government , the composition of both to be determined by the transitional constitution [ see p. 38422 for NP 's views on composition of both bodies ] ; ( iv ) the commencement of rule by the transitional government , on the authority of the transitional parliament , which would take over from CODESA as the negotiating forum for the " final " constitution ; and ( v ) adoption of the final constitution , probably with another referendum . |
| 16 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |