Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , oh I 'm talking about this bit now in a minute |
| 2 | The second exploded a few minutes later in a wastebin in Cavendish Square , where the store 's 1,500 staff usually gather during safety drills . |
| 3 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 4 | Get another tape out in a minute Ju ! |
| 5 | Get another tape out in a minute ! |
| 6 | The first time I met them , a few months ago in a London photo studio , they were having confetti dumped over their heads by a girl who plays Gemma in Neighbours . |
| 7 | Any diet that takes this weight off in a month or two will probably not be successful in the long term . |
| 8 | The knife lies a few feet away in a puddle . |
| 9 | CD had already satirized the Movement some years earlier in a piece for The Examiner ( 3 June 1843 ) , ‘ Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Condition of the Persons variously engaged in the University of Oxford ’ ( collected in MP ) . |
| 10 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 11 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 12 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 13 | Rehearsal time for the cast would be limited , just a few days together in a church hall with sticky tape on the floor and a few odd props to suggest sets that will only be seen on the Friday . |
| 14 | If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ? |
| 15 | This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory . |
| 16 | Hence the syntactic and semantic relations between words further than this distance away in a piece of text are not considered . |
| 17 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 18 | Always wash this rice thoroughly in a sieve under running water otherwise you will get a scum on the water in the pan , causing the rice to boil over on the hob and resulting in an unpleasant appearance when the grains are cooked . |
| 19 | There is another lot here in a bag , but this plastic is beginning to go , so I 'll drop it down to you |
| 20 | Several times they came across signs of deer , and wild pig , and once , some way off in a thicket , they heard a stag grunt . |
| 21 | I 'm gon na get some goggles on in a minute . |
| 22 | Doctors have had dozens of enquiries for what family planners claim is another step forward in a woman 's right to choose . |
| 23 | 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside . |
| 24 | Cos if anything happens to that child especially in a fire situation you are liable to criminal er tt etcetera . |
| 25 | Place all these ingredients together in a bowl . |
| 26 | Again it is important for children to experience these ideas practically in a variety of ways to enable them eventually to achieve full understanding . |
| 27 | He and Helga sat at the back of the class , groping each other up in a flurry of smirks and giggles . |
| 28 | The latter deal primarily in a currency of meaning while the former have still a conflict concerning the appropriate register for the target language . |
| 29 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 30 | This division was well laid out many years ago in a Ministry of Health memorandum issued with HM(65)77 , the needs of the two categories of elderly people being quite different . |