Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might cost you a thousand pounds if you live in a a huge detached house and in the back of building you 've got lots of rooms . |
| 2 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 3 | ‘ Miss Fraser , I 'd like to ask you a few questions if I may . ’ |
| 4 | People will have to tell me a million times before it gets through to me . ’ |
| 5 | Just give me a few minutes while I get dressed and I shall be ready to go with you . |
| 6 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 8 | I thought Honved might cause them a few problems once they had equalised . |
| 9 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 10 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 11 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 12 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 13 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 14 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 15 | And it 'll just save us a few minutes because it 'll be tight squeeze I expect . |