Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 2 | I told Mike Teague beforehand that if we lost it would mean the end of the road for a few of us . ’ |
| 3 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 4 | His words to the Commando Officer in the jeep were drowned by the crack of the 15 pounders as a few of them opened fire , the guns lurching forward as the shells sped off towards their target . |
| 5 | As a few of us stand and look at the Germans , Mills Roberts appears with a few of his Officers . |
| 6 | She also said she would find out more information about a few of them for me . |
| 7 | We flick through a few of them , Gilbert and George pointing out the anachronistic charm of the airbrushed male nudes . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's intending to drop in and have a social drink with a few of them in the next day or so , have lunch or dinner , participate in old boys ’ chat , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 9 | Alan 's already had initial discussions with a few of us and with Graham about what the next stage should be erm but that 's really not been finalized yet . |
| 10 | ‘ He showed them Viet Cong a thing or two , I could do with a few like 'im round 'ere . ’ |
| 11 | The pixels can be enlarged until a few of them fill the screen and detailed manipulation can be done . |
| 12 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 13 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 14 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 15 | And I thought we might look at a few of them . |