Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 3 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 4 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 5 | It was only a vote in the Commons at 11 p.m. that brought the evening to an end and then she returned to Downing Street for a few hours ' work on her boxes before turning in . |
| 6 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 7 | The German had intended to ride his Olympic gold medal partner , Walzerkoenig , on Saturday night until a few hours earlier when it was discovered that the horse 's off-foreleg was inexplicably swollen . |
| 8 | After standing silently looking up at the Brooklyn sky for a few minutes , and reciting a poem , she then jumped back into the car . |
| 9 | The driver stopped the jeep outside the Saulnier farm for a few moments to say goodbye to the farmer , a very good friend to the Commandos , especially No. 6 Commando . |
| 10 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 11 | It was struck by a crowded express train from Paddington travelling at a hundred miles an hour along the Great Western line near Swindon . |
| 12 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 13 | Can you provide the OED text on a magnetic tape(s) with the following specification : |
| 14 | In July an Indian government report on the February crash of an Indian Airlines Airbus A320 in Bangalore in February 1990 [ see p. 37268 ] found that not enough time had been allowed to enable personal to adapt to changes in aircraft , equipment , maintenance , ground facilities and the training of engineers and pilots . |
| 15 | The league consisted of four leading competitions held over a period of three months at various venues in North Yorkshire on a 10 metres high Enterprises panel wall . |
| 16 | This is a local venture although modelled on the CC format of a written descriptions accompanied by photographs . |
| 17 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 18 | No but I did say about it Lester Piggott on a few weeks ago . |
| 19 | They awaited the President 's decision , and in February 1965 this came , after a Vietcong attack on an American advisers " base at Pleiku in South Vietnam . |
| 20 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 21 | I 'd rather get Leeds tickets for it of course , but I 've a mate over from Norn Irn for a few days ( ex Larne and Crusaders player ) and he 's not a LUFC member . |
| 22 | ‘ We are going to arrive at Port au Prince airport in a few minutes . |
| 23 | Leith had a brief discussion with Robert Drewer on a few matters , collected up several files while she was at it , then went to her own office , where her assistant had just arrived . |
| 24 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |
| 25 | An unknown writer observing at the restoration work of 1887 says of the nave , the walls were found to be covered with old surface paintings , and Fielding in his Memories of Malling , writes , " In Halling Church until a few years ago existed the uncouth painting over the chancel arch , variously described as the tale of the unfaithful wife and the emblematic representation of the seven deadly sins . |
| 26 | Labour leader , Neil Kinnock has asked Mrs Thatcher for a full Commons debate on Britain 's entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ; the debate 's expected when the House returns next week . |
| 27 | In November 1990 the government removed the power of arrest from the military police following the August murder of a senior police chief who was investigating army officers thought to be involved in criminal activities . |
| 28 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
| 29 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
| 30 | The train stopped at Spean Bridge for a few moments , the platform was almost deserted . |