Example sentences of "drink [det] a bottle of " in BNC.

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1 We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then .
2 And ho drinking half a bottle of wine .
3 Horbury , of Pontypool , Gwent , admitted he drank half a bottle of whisky that night .
4 I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry .
5 The two plain-clothes officers had drunk half a bottle of scotch and several cans of lager on the train journey from Glasgow to Telford to escort a prisoner back to Scotland , said Estelle Hindely , prosecuting .
6 She had waited behind the hedge in the front garden , ready to smuggle him into the house without alerting the neighbours , but he never arrived : she had drunk half a bottle of white wine as she waited and now felt slightly sick .
7 ‘ You do not pump out a man 's stomach because he 's drunk half a bottle of scotch , ’ said Dalziel .
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