Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 2 | He cleared his throat a few times and groaned like an aged dog in pain . |
| 3 | " It is a bit ; will you open the back door for a few minutes and let in a breath of air ? " |
| 4 | For a second he stood , his arms extended towards the horrified villagers , before staggering a few steps and collapsing into the flames . |
| 5 | He quickly devoured a few fragments and stuffed into a bag a lot of miscellaneous food which Irina was evidently leaving behind . |
| 6 | The consequences for some nations or subgroups in a population of being without access to environmental data or the tools for analysing them while others have such access are potentially profound — as the European Commission has recognized in issuing a directive on public access to environmental data ( CEC 1990d ) — yet space limitations have also precluded their discussion . |
| 7 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 8 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 9 | run across er , they must 've gone across er some lines and got on a motorbike , but where were the police ? |
| 10 | Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking . |
| 11 | Well , he kept taking a few sips and peeping around the door to spy out the whereabouts of the principal . |
| 12 | ‘ Aye , Mrs Urvill , ’ the girl said , taking out some keys and heading for the mini . |
| 13 | We like to concentrate on the pop stuff in a few tracks and indulge in the more experimental stuff with the rest . ’ |
| 14 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 15 | ‘ Pack a few things and get on a plane . ’ |
| 16 | It has 48 pages for you to write down all those important things you have to remember , plus some jokes and puzzles on the back cover . |
| 17 | Mr Norman Tebbit , then secretary of state at the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , asked few questions and waved through the Al Fayed bid in ten days flat . |
| 18 | She decided to make some changes and embarked on a quest which took her to , among other places , an ashram in Wales and a three-week ‘ Relationships Seminar ’ in Hawaii ( price $8,000 ) run by an American called Chuck Spezzano . |
| 19 | Read the first few pages and flick through the rest . |
| 20 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 21 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 22 | Reaching it she climbed a few rungs and looked over the heads of the people and the cockpit where a double ring of candles hung low on iron chains from the rafters , spreading a brilliant pool of light . |
| 23 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
| 24 | Claudia called for champagne and someone else suggested they put on some records and dance in the hall . |
| 25 | Some parliamentarian troops in Kidderminster , believing the rest of the army was coming their way , fled so rapidly they left some carriages and supplies in the town square . |
| 26 | He will show some slides and talk about the railways of an entirely different part of the country — the changing scene in East Anglia . |
| 27 | As tribunals are totally independent of Government and are judicial organisations , they must have the power — and the House must respect that power — to investigate such matters and come to a conclusion . |
| 28 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 29 | The hallkeeper will be asked to make an inventory of such goods and discuss with the school janitors the possibility of having them stored somewhere within the schools ‘ premises . |
| 30 | To model such processes and to discriminate between the various mechanisms that are invoked to account for the genesis of the deposits requires a reliable estimate of the age of mineralisation . |