Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I dare say , but I 'd far rather be playing snooker with a few of the boys , accompanied by a few pints of beer — preferably Devil 's Dram . |
| 32 | I was there with a few of the guys from Delta . |
| 33 | ‘ Well , after Sir Edmund finished his interrogation this morning , I had a word with a few of the servants , men from the outlying farms . |
| 34 | ‘ That was a game we should have won after taking a two goal lead , and I think it 's still rankles with a few of the lads . |
| 35 | My godfather took me to dinner here and we played poker afterwards with a few of the members . |
| 36 | If their positions are marked on a map of the island it will be seen that the main concentrations are in the Ardnave-Sanaig area , with a few down the Rhinns to Port Charlotte , another group within the sweep of Laggan Bay and a third near Kildalton . |
| 37 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 38 | We mere peasant members are asked , in practice if not in theory , merely to murmur reverentially a few names of a few decent people into a few of the proper ears , who will then look after everything for us . |
| 39 | Yet all we seem to have heard , either from a few of the more militant leading players or their representatives in recent months , has been the cry ‘ We want more . ’ |
| 40 | Sieve the flours and salt together twice then toss the cherries in a little of the flour . |
| 41 | Pour in a little of the grape jelly over the bottom — it will thicken quickly . |
| 42 | This time the lips parted , taking in a little of the water . |
| 43 | I 'd probably best to put it all in a all in the corner there . |
| 44 | Fortunately most of the corridors were bright enough and only in a few of the darker , damper ones did he need his torch to see where he was going . |
| 45 | As darkness made it impossible to continue , all that remained was to put in a few of the darkest reflections . |
| 46 | Following the implementation of the new Financial Services Act , licensed dealers dragged their nets to pull in a few of the old-style hard sell merchants . |
| 47 | ( 6.5 ) unc provided x is free in no unc ( 6.6 ) unc provided x is free in no unc Note that it is possible to deal with cases where x is only declared in a few of the |
| 48 | Hovering in the background to it all was the commanding officer ( played by Eric Barker , also to be seen in a few of the other early ‘ Carry On ’ films ) and his instruction that was so familiar to every ‘ sprog ’ who ever put on a uniform , ‘ Carry on Sergeant ’ . |
| 49 | Wooden cocktail sticks and skewers are used in a few of the cakes in this book for propping up , for securing and also for decorative items such as flagpoles . |
| 50 | True , there was something unbearably starchy about much of the supposed ‘ informality ’ in the film , but it appeared to have cast a full tungsten glare over a few of the secrets of the magicians . |
| 51 | Nor should anything especially sinister be read into reports that the money to pay for little Sachin has been provided by commercial concerns not averse to a little of the old quid pro quo . |
| 52 | Maybe we can talk quietly to a few of the men — one of the masons from Ballechin has a son who must be twenty . ’ |
| 53 | It will be sufficient for our purposes to point to a few of the features of the chapter as we have it . |
| 54 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 55 | This brochure can do more than introduce you to a few of the services that our personal customers find most useful . |
| 56 | My purpose here will be to give a very brief sketch of what each of the theories attempts and to direct the interested reader to a few of the many other books that do give detailed accounts and critiques of them . |
| 57 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 58 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 59 | So in our search for innovation we decided , without much conviction , to concentrate on a few of the rapidly developing fields , that is on the current fashions such as biotechnology , new materials , lasers and the like , but the emphasis was to be on supporting the research whose main objective was to improve understanding in these fields rather than on products . |
| 60 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |