Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy made quite a good joke . |
| 2 | ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round . |
| 3 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 4 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 5 | Ellis found only a moderate rate ( about 4 per cent ) of frank insanity among his subjects ; a figure , incidentally , that included some examples of brain disease . |
| 6 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 7 | Howe still needs a goalkeeper on loan because David Seaman has only a slender chance of returning on Saturday and his two deputies are injured . |
| 8 | During his reign Edward made nearly a thousand presentations to church livings , as many as sixty-nine in one year alone in 1304–5 . |
| 9 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 10 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 11 | David Robinson headed over from a corner after three minutes , Mark Prudhoe booted away a close range effort from Bobby Barnes after 22 minutes , while Ken Charlery lobbed wide with only the keeper to beat after 35 minutes . |
| 12 | Mum says nothing until Richard lets loose a mid-sized burp . |
| 13 | Donna flicked ahead a few pages but could see no way of hastening her search for the information she sought . |
| 14 | In his speech on May 25 Arafat put forward a five-point plan proposing that : ( i ) an emergency UN military force be sent to the occupied territories to protect Palestinian civilians ; ( ii ) a special UN envoy be appointed to deal with the Palestinian issue ; ( iii ) a UN resolution be passed calling for end to Jewish settlement in the territories ; ( iv ) UN members adopt sanctions against Israel ; and ( v ) the five permanent members of the Security Council convene to prepare for an international conference on the Middle East . |
| 15 | Edenderry had also a fine choir ‘ pervaded by a spirit of friendship . ’ |
| 16 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 17 | Ferguson blasted home a 30-yard drive with six minutes remaining , and there were only two minutes on the clock when substitute Trevor McMullan hit the jackpot from 20 yards . |
| 18 | Ferguson blasted home a 30-yard drive with six minutes remaining , and there were only two minutes on the clock when substitute Trevor McMullan hit the jackpot from 20 yards . |
| 19 | But Woking failed to maintain their momentum and Robert Codner drove home a deserved equaliser before half-time . |
| 20 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 21 | Remembering the other woman 's private income , Loretta made only a faint protest . |
| 22 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 23 | Tyneside has almost a unique congruence of a range of industrial traditions for men . |
| 24 | Fill players like O'Grady and Hibbit , then later Bates and Yorath played quite a few games . |
| 25 | Writing in 1957 , Whiteley identified over a hundred language groups in mainland Tanzania , many of which were extremely small . |
| 26 | Roxburgh named only a 16-man pool last week . |
| 27 | Wordsworth seems almost a hundred years ahead of his time . |
| 28 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 29 | p.s. saw Celtic play here a few weeks ago — a really SHITE team at the moment . |
| 30 | His dad Keith and mum Carol live just a few streets away in Hoylake , Wirral . |