Example sentences of "[pron] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give " em a few months , and you should see the share price double . |
| 2 | Someone a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week . |
| 3 | ‘ Kevin sponsored a friend of mine a few years ago and took over his wife . |
| 4 | It follows a 1991 World in Action programme in which a former GCHQ official revealed how Mr Christie 's telexes were being intercepted . |
| 5 | The case was the first in which a former government minister was brought before a Swiss criminal court . |
| 6 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 7 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 8 | Copulation is repeated at intervals between which a few capsules are laid ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) . |
| 9 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |
| 10 | Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 12 | Charisma is that aspect of personality which a few people possess which makes others follow them . |
| 13 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 14 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 15 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 16 | And Oriel College will hold its a own memorial service … after the funeral … expected to go ahead early next week . |
| 17 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 18 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 19 | Colin McEachran , the council vice-chairman and himself a former Games shooting silver medallist , said : ‘ We 're aiming the appeal at the whole spectrum of Scottish life . |
| 20 | When Hun Sen , himself a former Khmer Rouge commander who fled to Vietnam , gives his list of eight Khmer Rouge leaders whom he absolutely refuses to include in any political deal , it is the same people who studied together in Paris in the 1950s , fought in the jungles from 1967 , captured Phnom Penh in 1975 , led the government of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 , and fled to Thailand in 1979 after the Vietnamese invasion . |
| 21 | Mr Jones declined to comment on John Patten 's allegations , but his party colleague Lord Home of Cheltenham , himself a former candidate in the town , says he 's outraged … |
| 22 | The first Private Bill ever in the Lords is to be proposed by either Lord Winstanley , himself a former GP , or Lord Allen . |
| 23 | It is particularly fitting that Underwood should have chosen to step down in a year when the president of the Rugby Football Union is Peter Yarranton , himself a former England player and RAF pilot , who will be at today 's game . |
| 24 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
| 25 | Public meetings were organized , MPs lobbied ( including the Bridgwater incumbent , Tom King , himself a former Energy Minister ) , and a mass of information produced to emphasize both the nuclear threat and the local disruption this development would bring to everything from roads to wildlife . |
| 26 | Tighter Government guidelines for areas of outstanding natural beauty like the Cotswolds are being blamed by the nurseries planning consultant , himself a former planning chief . |
| 27 | Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket . |
| 28 | A statement made by Daniel McPhee , the travellers ' spokesman and himself a former traveller agrees with what the police super . |
| 29 | However , I kept trying and with the help of Mr Norman Tebbit , our then junior minister and himself a former airline pilot , the project went through . |
| 30 | Calling himself a former pupil of J. T. Desaguliers [ q.v . ] , |