Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few moments silence before they turned their backs to the church and , still holding hands , sang : |
| 2 | He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction . |
| 3 | That contrasts with what some policies will lead to in a few years time if we are going to have complete closure of some long stay hospitalS . |
| 4 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 5 | THAILAND 'S Foreign Ministry yesterday suffered a public relations fiasco when it failed to produce five Vietnamese soldiers it claimed had been captured inside Cambodia after Hanoi 's much-publicised troop withdrawal from Cambodia last week . |
| 6 | He need not be taken to a designated police station if it is not anticipated he will be detained for more than six hours or where the arresting officer is without help . |
| 7 | However it is only a six months trial so I am told , so come on residents of Albert Hill catch that bus and keep the service going . |
| 8 | I like to know which players in the premier league you would pick to form a 18 men squad if you were manager of a new team . |
| 9 | Another woman , after all , would no more hire a beauty queen to present a current affairs programme than she would hire a motor mechanic to give her a facelift . |
| 10 | Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static . |
| 11 | She had great difficulty getting herself accepted on a government-sponsored TOPS course because she was considered over-qualified . |
| 12 | He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the . |
| 13 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 14 | With some 275,000 employees nationwide , British Telecom faced a massive communications job when they needed to explain the introduction of a new technical system to every manager in the company . |
| 15 | I think local Government 's gon na be an absolute pigs ear if you 've got two tiers two tiers in one county and and authorities in another . |
| 16 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 17 | The bewilderment of civilians herded into an armoured personnel carrier when they are ‘ relocated ’ to another village , and their homes destroyed is painfully evident . |
| 18 | I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius . |
| 19 | ‘ We went for an open systems solution because we wanted to build in flexibility for the future , ’ says ACCOUNTANCY 's Malcolm Cole . |