Example sentences of "a [noun] with a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 2 | In which there 'd be a picture and a description with a few words . |
| 3 | Not just the clink of milk bottles , but more strangely , the sounds of a group with a few pintas of potential . |
| 4 | The result is an approximate history of the site : for example , the site may begin with the construction of a farmhouse with a few outbuildings , then a large barn was built , alterations were made to the farmhouse , two of the outbuildings were demolished , and so on . |
| 5 | Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation . |
| 6 | If you can afford the licence fee and a VCR , cable subscription and satellite dish , then you have a room with a million views . |
| 7 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 8 | He married , first , in 1744 , Katherine ( daughter of John Poyer ) of Parke , Henllan Amgoed ( ‘ a wife with a thousand dracmas ’ as Lewis Morris sarcastically noted ) . |
| 9 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 10 | There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others . |
| 11 | The tail was just a stump with a few feathers beginning to show through , rather like the beard stubble that appears when someone has n't shaved fur a couple of days . |
| 12 | We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution . |
| 13 | A study by Bones ( 1986a ) is the work of a non-linguist with a social sciences background . |
| 14 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 15 | Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it . |
| 16 | She completed a hat-trick with a 12 lengths victory over previous scorer Milleone at Nottingham last month and should prove too sharp for her rivals in the Northern Junior Hurdle . |
| 17 | For seconds the dream-picture remained — a spiral stairway , a worm with a thousand legs moving in waves , climbing fast . |
| 18 | The mouth opened a crack and out slid a worm with a thousand legs , foul breath , and four words : ‘ James Bishop murders babies . ’ |
| 19 | You 're not going to brush aside a tradition with a few facts . |
| 20 | ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night . |
| 21 | Still , he prepared her cigarettes for her at least , filling a saucer with a few butts and plenty of ash . |
| 22 | She was vaguely aware at one stage in the proceedings of Alexander , with Nina hovering at his elbow , standing in a huddle with a tall plain-clothes detective . |
| 23 | They were put into a little room , no more than a cubicle , where there were two kitchen-chairs and a table with a few magazines . |
| 24 | There was , however , a market with a few shops , since discontinued : a new church , St Aldhelm 's , now demolished ; tennis courts , shrubberies , a zigzag path along the cliff , later obliterated by landslips ; and sheltered stone seats known as ‘ All the year round ’ . |
| 25 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 26 | As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them . |
| 27 | Early last year , in an interview with a low-circulation Blues fanzine , Bowyer stated that the current political climate in Northern Ireland would make it almost impossible for Catholics to cross the sectarian divide and play for Linfield . |
| 28 | Does he have an account with a dry cleaners ? |