Example sentences of "[verb] [det] a bottle of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another cupboard they found half a bottle of whisky and a dribble of brandy in the bottom of a Courvoisier bottle . |
| 2 | He had left as soon as he could , leaving Joe to consume half a bottle of whisky whole he raced through the backstreets , slowing to a walk only when he spotted someone approaching . |
| 3 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 4 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 5 | And ho drinking half a bottle of wine . |
| 6 | Horbury , of Pontypool , Gwent , admitted he drank half a bottle of whisky that night . |
| 7 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 8 | The two plain-clothes officers had drunk half a bottle of scotch and several cans of lager on the train journey from Glasgow to Telford to escort a prisoner back to Scotland , said Estelle Hindely , prosecuting . |
| 9 | She had waited behind the hedge in the front garden , ready to smuggle him into the house without alerting the neighbours , but he never arrived : she had drunk half a bottle of white wine as she waited and now felt slightly sick . |
| 10 | ‘ You do not pump out a man 's stomach because he 's drunk half a bottle of scotch , ’ said Dalziel . |