Example sentences of "with [det] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
2 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
3 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
4 | I ought to be married with half a dozen kids of my own . |
5 | He brought along his fishing tackle which he used at their Hampshire retreat , together with half a dozen books by his friend and mentor , the South African philosopher and adventurer , Sir Laurens van der Post . |