Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga . |
| 2 | The reason for building a high mutation rate into the model is that the whole performance on the computer screen is for the benefit of human eyes , and humans have n't the patience to wait a million generations for a mutation ! |
| 3 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 4 | Willie 's story starts a few years before his first Open triumph , and bears out his theory that his golf destiny was ‘ written in the stars ’ . |
| 5 | Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast . |
| 6 | It is true that the National Deaf Club attracted a few members from the provinces , but by and large , its membership has been confined mostly to London and its environs . |
| 7 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 8 | These poltroons seems to think that it 's a big deal to hoist a few pints of Smithwicks after an afternoon spent with their heads stuck up some geezer 's back passes . |
| 9 | On a warm day , the instructions said , it would be sufficient for the horseman to place a few drops on his perspiring forehead to call his horses from a fair distance without saying a word , or making any sound . |
| 10 | The following summary of ideas on stress placement in nouns , verbs and adjectives is an attempt to present a few rules in the simplest possible form . |
| 11 | Lot number fifteen Lot fifteen , the jadeite plaque there 's the jadeite plaque showing a hundred pounds for it , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty , thirty , one thirty offered , forty , fifty , at one hundred and fifty pounds at a hundred and fifty only , at one hundred and fifty pounds , I shall sell , one sixty , one seventy , going on sir ? |
| 12 | Support for my ailing home town club extends a few years before the glorious 1964 10–0 victory over Darlington , part of Belle Vue folklore . |
| 13 | Lefevre allowed the carriage to travel a hundred yards before giving orders to follow at a safe distance . |
| 14 | She had dropped stitches continually in her knitting ( she was knitting a yellow angora sweater for Victoria ) and started whenever the shop-bell jangled or the parakeet muttered a few words to itself . |
| 15 | Leapor 's poetry records a few occasions of anger during her employment at Edgcote House . |
| 16 | At a more modest level , the office of clerk of the works at Middleham was filled by a Westmorland man , Michael Wharton of Kirkby Thore , whose home lay a few miles from Gloucester 's lordship of Penrith . |
| 17 | At a more modest level , the office of clerk of the works at Middleham was filled by a Westmorland man , Michael Wharton of Kirkby Thore , whose home lay a few miles from Gloucester 's lordship of Penrith . |
| 18 | Benjamin and I left Royston in the last week of November , when the days grew dark early and the sun disappeared a few hours after noon . |
| 19 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 20 | My the boss said a few things under his breath , came down the steps and we went back into the van . |
| 21 | Sometimes it is helpful to give an ice cold drink a few minutes before a meal to relive the difficulty of chewing or swallowing . |
| 22 | The lay brother was quiet , contenting himself with the dry comment that he had done enough penance to wipe a thousand years of purgatory from the debt his soul owed God . |
| 23 | It sees a tiny patch of the visual field measuring a few degrees of visual angle across . |
| 24 | The coroner passed a few remarks in his summing-up on the heavy responsibility shouldered by those placed in loco parentis , but accepted that the girl 's affections had been aroused unintentionally . |
| 25 | In contrast , an individual spending less than 12 months in his last job has a higher chances of obtaining an offer ceteris paribus . |
| 26 | The failure to find a referent results in a numerical penalty being awarded to the reading for which it occurs . |
| 27 | In the very short space of ten seasons Mains played a hundred games for Otago and had begun a steady succession of matches in All Black trials . |
| 28 | But Yorkshire 's lead by then was 53 with the final 20 overs approaching and Craig White and Darren Gough carefully batted on until rain came a few minutes before the close . |
| 29 | WITH the Interim results a few weeks behind us , here are some of the interpretations of the City journalist . |
| 30 | The men died when the thirty eight ton gantry fell a hundred feet from the underside of the bridge two years ago . |