Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
2 | It was a terrible journey reducing the Masai nation to a few hundred survivors . |
3 | One in the British Museum ( fig. 77 ) has been known since the eighteenth century and is called the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo after a former owner . |
4 | After standing silently looking up at the Brooklyn sky for a few minutes , and reciting a poem , she then jumped back into the car . |
5 | The driver stopped the jeep outside the Saulnier farm for a few moments to say goodbye to the farmer , a very good friend to the Commandos , especially No. 6 Commando . |
6 | Though serial numbers were issued to the Joyces , the identity books were not , since the family protested that it intended to leave the country for the United States in a few more days . |
7 | There 's a massive crew associated with Barnum and the Apollo chips in a few more . |
8 | Among the most violent incidents during 1990-91 were the July 1990 killing of Ian Gow [ see p. 37623 ] ; the September shooting of a former Gibraltar Governor [ see p. 37720 ] ; the October IRA " human bomb " attacks [ see p. 37784 ] ; the November rocket attack on the home of a Belfast High Court judge [ see p. 37869 ] ; the February 1991 IRA mortar attack on Downing Street and attacks on mainland railway stations [ see pp. 38019-20 ] ; and the March 1991 Craigavon killings [ see p. 38112 ] . |
9 | Gabrielle went to stay with her parents in the Kent countryside for a few days after the hearing , collected her thoughts and decided to carve out a life for herself and her children . |
10 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
11 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
12 | Later he put aside his grief to invite successor Bill Clinton to the White House for a few tips on settling in . |
13 | All cabinet council meetings took place in the west wing of the White House within a few feet of the Oval Office . |