Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 2 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Have I won a thousand pounds ? |
| 4 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 5 | Since then , Ireland have not won a Five Nations match and their best result was a 21–21 draw with Wales at Cardiff in 1991 . |
| 6 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 7 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 8 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
| 9 | Joe 's father had worked for her father , and Joe himself had earned a few shillings helping out , when he was a scrawny boy with a runny nose . |
| 10 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 11 | In the area in which we are interested , there was a ‘ Sutton Garage ’ and a ‘ Sutton Depôt ’ , the latter actually being located a few yards across the boundary into Carshalton . |
| 12 | Without it , my version occupied a few seconds under fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 14 | It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many . |
| 15 | The ground either end of the bridge had dropped a few inches . |
| 16 | So you 've obviously dropped a few marks on that . |
| 17 | Such Maoisms as ‘ Let a hundred flowers bloom ’ and ‘ Imperialism is a paper tiger ’ were anathema to Khrushchev . |
| 18 | I 've lifted a few sacks of taters in me time , but I do n't reckon to lift thee ! ’ |
| 19 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 20 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 21 | CROSBY , STILLS AND NASH , legendary '60s folk-rockers , have added a few dates to follow up their sold-out Albert Hall show at Dublin 's Point . |
| 22 | The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI . |
| 23 | Here and there the doctor had added a few words . |
| 24 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 25 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 26 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 27 | Perched a few feet from the top of the 1,000ft Glenshane Pass is one of N. Ireland 's most famous pubs , and probably also ’ its ’ highest , The Ponderosa . |
| 28 | The fact that you have enjoyed a few jars together will not cloud a journalist 's judgement . |
| 29 | The strike was averted a few days before the scheduled date , after Confindustria , yielding to pressure from the government as well as from the unions , agreed to resume pay negotiations in the sectors concerned , and from June 1 , 1991 , to enter into negotiations on a new wage bargaining and indexation system . |
| 30 | At the Chalk Farm stop an attractive , freckled schoolgirl , about sixteen , in a smart navy uniform and white blouse , had got on and sat a few seats away . |