Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 2 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 3 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 4 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 5 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 6 | You know in a few minutes . |
| 7 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 8 | Let me give you one or two specific examples , I 'm always interested , having been in a college for thirty five years in adult education , I 'm interested in the primary schools and I must admit I get more job satisfaction the moment we go in a primary schools than ever I had when I was in the college itself ! |
| 9 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 10 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
| 11 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
| 12 | He drew in a deep kapalabhati breath , concentrating his mind on the renewal of his ch'i , the inner energy which increases strength and speed of reflexes , and imparts greater pliability . |
| 13 | He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete . |
| 14 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |