Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 2 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 3 | He seemed to consider that for a few seconds and then replied , ‘ Maria Luisa needed me around . ’ |
| 4 | They stayed like that for a few seconds , both breathing hard , their mouths almost touching . |
| 5 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 6 | ‘ It shows that the public is beginning to realise that for a few pounds spent on car security they can protect their second most expensive purchase , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ It shows that the public is beginning to realise that for a few pounds spent on car security they can protect their second most expensive purchase . ’ |
| 8 | Although the analysis of variance for the recoded risk information is slightly different from that for the all the potential risks it is clear from Figure 7.3 that with the exception of the medium risk exemplars the general pattern of results is very similar to that shown in Figure 7.2 . |
| 9 | This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) . |
| 10 | Try saying that after a few gins . |
| 11 | What I 'm worried about at the moment is that large numbers of people are buying computers , especially some of the cheaper ones , and my prediction is that after a few weeks , they get put into cupboards , and are n't used , because they are so unfriendly , so hard to use , whereas in principle computers could be very powerful and useful devices in the home . |
| 12 | Follow this for a half a mile , past a huge thatched barn on the right , then Marsh Lodge on the left . |
| 13 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 14 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 15 | He pondered the implications of this for a few days , uncertain whether to welcome it or feel alarmed . |
| 16 | It is a good idea to do this for a few more days before the horse travels . |
| 17 | Do this for a few days ( see figure 4 ) . |
| 18 | Nigel considered this for a few moments and then he said , ‘ Tell you what . |
| 19 | Could you leave this for a few days until I 'm fresher ? ’ |
| 20 | After thinking about this for a few minutes , he said , ‘ No ; it must be imagination . ’ |
| 21 | He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides . |
| 22 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 23 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 24 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 25 | s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see . |
| 26 | I do n't see any problem with this as a former chairman of planning , and I do n't think any other one would . |
| 27 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 28 | and of course , you know , you er er you 'll get hold of all this as the more we do erm but you lost your way on the diagram by giving him too much I think and , and er the referrals you sort of lost at one point but you come back and reclaimed it did n't you ? |
| 29 | Of course they could read the monthly pack anyway but they do not see this as the same as actually having to insert each change in its correct place . |
| 30 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |