Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 2 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 5 | Daughter Rebecca , seven , was a few paces behind with a relative . |
| 6 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 7 | WITH reference to the recent Echo letter about the £1 con-trick , I also had this same deed played on myself some months ago at a supermarket . |
| 8 | She wrote a few words quickly on a piece of paper , and at the last moment added at the bottom : |
| 9 | Richard Crossman , manager of the Border brewery , Berwick , joined Mann 's as a partner , being joined a few months later by a friend from Berwick , Thomas Paulin . |
| 10 | I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market . |
| 11 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 12 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
| 13 | The knife lies a few feet away in a puddle . |
| 14 | For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University . |
| 15 | The authority 's predecessor river board granted a consent some years ago with a number of parameters : 20 BOD , 100 p.p.m. suspended solids ( relaxed from the usual 30 ) , and various metals , including zinc , consented to the standard 0.5 p.p.m . |
| 16 | The Law Society 's Accident Legal Advice Service ( ALAS ) started some years ago as a way of promoting personal injury work . |
| 17 | An initiative first launched some years ago by a member of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , the Hotel Employers Group and education groups were revived in 1992 . |
| 18 | The points at which fighting was fiercest were Shalamcheh and Fish Lake , a reservoir constructed by the Iraqi forces some years earlier as a barrier against anticipated attempts to take Basrah . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 22 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
| 23 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 24 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 25 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The illusion had lasted long enough to make her accept his invitation to spend a few days away as a reward for all her hard work at the shop . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 30 | The move followed a visit to Singapore in August by the Chinese Premier , Li Peng [ see p. 37656 ] , and the renewal that month of China 's diplomatic relations with Indonesia , and was followed a few weeks later by a visit by Lee Kuan Yew to China [ see p. 37780 ] . |