Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The knife lies a few feet away in a puddle . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'm gon na get some goggles on in a minute . |
| 10 | Place all these ingredients together in a bowl . |
| 11 | Again it is important for children to experience these ideas practically in a variety of ways to enable them eventually to achieve full understanding . |
| 12 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |
| 15 | We might ask to hear some of those sounds again in a minute . |
| 16 | ‘ You can learn all the moves and practise until you 're silly , ’ he warns , ‘ but in the end you need to put those moves together in a manner that is more efficient and effective than anybody else has done before . ’ |
| 17 | Captain Cook broached the forbidding shores of west New Guinea , and lost several men there in a fight with the Asmat cannibals , under circumstances similar to those in which he would later lose his own life in the Hawaiian Islands . |
| 18 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |