Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
| 2 | I 've lifted a few sacks of taters in me time , but I do n't reckon to lift thee ! ’ |
| 3 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 4 | The new , Kixx-produced packaging tells you all you need to know about the controls and special weapons ; it even included a few tips on baddie bashing , but gives no idea as to how you came to be doing it or why ! |
| 5 | Amelia had left off quoting from the wit and wisdom of her favourite mass murderers , done a few lines of cocaine , and started to whizz around the room . |
| 6 | ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ’ is a poem in Wordsworth 's loftiest philosophical manner , and a triumphant affirmation of God 's creative and restorative power at work in nature . |
| 7 | A brief excursion in July 1798 provided Wordsworth with an opportunity to summarize these new ideas in Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey , on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour , July 13th 1798 . |
| 8 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 9 | On Boxing Day I had accepted a few spoons of gravy , but only after considerable coaxing from Mick , having refused it twice already . |
| 10 | He has also missed a few internationals through injury . ’ |
| 11 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 12 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 13 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 14 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 15 | One was seen a few miles off Newhaven on 21 September 1936 ; one flew east off Langney Point on 15 October 1948 ; One flew east off Langney Point on 19 November 1950 . |
| 16 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 17 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've — I 've only got a hundred pounds in traveller 's cheques . |
| 19 | Er Miss 's got a few bits for people there so could you make sure they get there 's some football letters to be given out I think . |
| 20 | So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking . |
| 21 | He had , of course ‘ still got a few sheets of Donald 's prescription pad . |
| 22 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 23 | Others may experience a light-headed sensation as if they have had a few glasses of wine ; a few fall into a deep sleep ! |
| 24 | we have had a few successes in spite of this uncaring government , and feel that it has been worthwhile to protest . |
| 25 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 26 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 27 | They , they 've suddenly had a few outbreaks of polio have n't they ? |
| 28 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 29 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 30 | Her books Married Love and Wise Parenthood , published with difficulty in 1917 and 1918 , had sold a million copies by World War II . |