Example sentences of "a [det] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned a few moments later with the dish , and the little hedgehog could hardly believe her eyes : the gigantic dish was overflowing with dog food . |
| 2 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
| 3 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 4 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 5 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 6 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 7 | By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again . |
| 8 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 9 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to spend a few hours away from the house , ’ Julius suggested , before she had time to stalk off . |
| 11 | THERE looked a slim possibility yesterday that Owners Abroad might escape the clutches of rival travel group Airtours , just a few hours ahead of the close of the £290 million bid battle at 1pm today . |
| 12 | ‘ With Pharos , they will be just a few keystrokes away from the information they need to appreciate the detailed impact of community legislation on their businesses . ’ |
| 13 | I sometimes think that artists could well exhibit a few sketches along with the actual picture . |
| 14 | He 's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place . |
| 15 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 16 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 17 | A few kilometres inland in the foothills of the Ronda mountains , nestling below the spectacular white village of Gaucin you will find — FINCA LAS LIMAS . |
| 18 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
| 19 | The story goes that he managed a round on the morning of the wedding and even , it is said , a few strokes later in the day . |
| 20 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 21 | It appears a few lines away from the plagiarised title of the book . |
| 22 | The announcements made by the Minister for Overseas Development a few minutes ago about the food situation were welcome , but people in Africa are starving and the terms of trade that they receive in their dealings with the developed countries , the problem of their huge indebtedness to the developed countries and the world order over which we now preside are such that hundreds of millions of people live on the edge of catastrophe . |
| 23 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 24 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 25 | Reporters for ITN were getting the results a few minutes ahead of the announcement , by asking the candidates . |
| 26 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 27 | Mr Toubon 's appointment as Minister of Culture , made public just before 8pm on 30 March , was announced a few minutes later over the public address system at the Salon de Mars art fair , which had just opened — to widespread applause . |
| 28 | Occasionally they would get a little wary and move out of the swim but only to return a few minutes later to the area that they had apparently cleared for spawning . |
| 29 | He left the cosy little restaurant to reappear a few minutes later with the announcement that her taxi was at the door and that he and Bob would go with her as far as her hotel . |
| 30 | Dieter went off and returned a few minutes later with the information that Marie-Claire never came in on a Wednesday because her children 's school was closed on that day . |