Example sentences of "[adj] a bottle [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Horbury , of Pontypool , Gwent , admitted he drank half a bottle of whisky that night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Anyway he must have had about half a bottle of whisky . ’ |
| 5 | Medical experts told the court that they found cocaine and half a bottle of whisky in Kim Brockwell 's body . |
| 6 | The court also heard from medical experts who found traces of half a bottle of whisky , and cocaine in Kim 's body . |
| 7 | We prepared ourselves for the experience by drinking half a bottle of brandy each — I was worried about him until then . |
| 8 | For instance , the use of cannabis by the young is far more likely to be branded as ‘ drug-taking'/'drug addiction ’ and hence a ‘ social problem ’ than is the consumption of thirty cigarettes a day by adults or half a bottle of brandy by middle-class businessmen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He went downstairs to the rumpus room and rummaged behind the tiny bar , and , after digging through a seemingly endless collection of empty pop bottles , came up with half a bottle of rye and some ginger ale . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They did n't even like the editorial , which had been written by Packford on half a bottle of Scotch . |
| 13 | ‘ You do not pump out a man 's stomach because he 's drunk half a bottle of scotch , ’ said Dalziel . |
| 14 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 15 | Allow about half a bottle of wine per person or the equivalent in other drinks . |
| 16 | Half a bottle of wine a day — it 's not enough but it 's something . |
| 17 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 18 | And ho drinking half a bottle of wine . |
| 19 | Full breakfast with cooked and cold dishes ; dinner at the Colosseo/Pineta or the Torre Grill , including half a bottle of house wine and mineral water . |
| 20 | ‘ Half a bottle of number 32 , cooled , ’ 32 was a dry Graves , ‘ and a bottle of Evian water . ’ |
| 21 | Half a bottle of conditioner like , does it good . |
| 22 | So the appropriate documents we went to the Croatian Customs who stamped our papers and insisted on giving us each a bottle of orange juice . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that a bottle of wine ? ’ |
| 24 | Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants . |
| 25 | Similarly , a number of Morrissey 's former acquaintances ( again , those who were left behind ) told tales of how the singer downs many a bottle of wine despite his public image as the complete celibate with a teetotal lifestyle . |