Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report runs to only a few lines and Treby C.J. of the Common Pleas is reported as holding that ‘ when money is paid in pursuance of a void authority , etc. indebitatus assumpsit lies for it . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 3 | Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street . |
| 4 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 5 | She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born . |
| 6 | A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals ’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule . |
| 7 | In a few days or weeks Francis would almost certainly have made a will and it was unlikely that Anna would have been the principal , let alone the sole beneficiary . |
| 8 | Apart from the Lloyd George Liberals , and a few socialists and Oswald Mosley , there were no significant supporters of more expansionary policies . |
| 9 | Mr Bangemann 's intervention comes only a few weeks after Mr Major accused the President of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , of sabotaging the pound . |
| 10 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
| 11 | The Port Ellen Sacred Harmony Class sang a few anthems and Miss Shaw played the piano . |
| 12 | George Kirk , who works in Chemical Plants , battled round in four and a half hours while John Kenny from FDPED finished in three hours 18 minutes . |
| 13 | Catherine Walker , her favourite designer , would run her up half a dozen suits and milliner Philip Somerville would have supplied the hats . |
| 14 | In London , the Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town provided an insight into the reading habits of the chattering classes , with one of the most literary top 10s , a list that included Nick Hornby 's extraordinary study of soccer fanaticism , Fever Pitch , Donna Tartt 's The Secret History , Jane Smiley 's A Thousand Acres and Angela Carter 's Wise Children . |
| 15 | She then departs that day for a 15-night Mediterranean cruise , returning to the Mersey on September 29 and leaving that day for a 14-night Canaries and North Africa cruise which terminates at Southampton on October 13 . |
| 16 | It is just a hundred years since Felix Liebermann first propounded the theory that Anselm 's friendship with Archbishop Hugh of Lyons brought a new element into his life . |
| 17 | Almost a hundred years before Richard Baxter was born , Tyndale 's Bible was being smuggled into England . |