Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll no worry about that Rocastle business after a few wee snifters of Teachers ’ … |
| 2 | However , she leaves more cheerfully after a few choice words from one of the boys suggesting that her photograph should be changed because it does n't do her justice . |
| 3 | I was still crying when I put on my boots and picked up my kitbag ; and after a few desperate embraces I burst out into the stars and the snow — the constellations of snow , the blizzard of stars . |
| 4 | Three or four minutes later he heard a female with an Irish accent enquiring who wanted her : after a few cheery exchanges with the other inmates , she arrived at his pen . |
| 5 | After a few polite words , Sophie was about to do the same when Giles said , ‘ Do n't go . |
| 6 | If these were inappropriate then bewilderment and anxiety occurred and the interaction tended to be terminated after a few limited responses leaving a residual sense of uncertainty , displeasure and frustration . |
| 7 | During the week ashore you meet your companions and after a few discreet words the lead crew sorts you out . |
| 8 | After a few initial displays of outraged incomprehension , Brian had been forced to accept this as a fact of life , explaining to his colleagues and superiors , with a wry smile , that Constance was a friend of his wife 's : his wife had a taste for the eccentric , since she was the daughter of a famous artist , and , oddly enough , believe it or not , Constance was a skilled silversmith . |
| 9 | Sir Laurie Barratt of Barratt 's Homes set his architects to work at once and , after a few initial hiccups , the message has filtered through . |
| 10 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 11 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 12 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 13 | Its report was sent to my supervisors in February 1988 , and after a few minor changes the college 's final approval was received in May . |
| 14 | After a few minor changes , the final documents were officially sent out . |
| 15 | Her mother came to inspect her , and after a few minor adjustments declared that she was satisfied with her appearance . |
| 16 | " The Chairman after a few opening remarks intimated to the Meeting that the Debate would be taken up by the Revd. |
| 17 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 18 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 19 | In Syria , special forces were moved into every major town soon after the onset of war with orders to shoot to prevent further demonstrations after a few spontaneous outbursts of public protest occurred in the east of the country . |
| 20 | For one man to achieve the supreme state of Cosmic Consciousness , a state of absolute serenity , perfect peace and harmony , boundless knowledge and universal understanding , should this require the application of a thousand stout sticks , I would consider it a small price to pay . |
| 21 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 22 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 23 | Each one of them exterminated in Sobibor , the photograph fluttering into a pile of a thousand personal papers and documents with tens of thousands of spectacles and hundreds of thousands of shoes and boots — to be salvaged or burnt and either way lost for ever . |
| 24 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 25 | When it gets to the point that to reach your greenhouse you have to run the gauntlet of a thousand bristling spines , it is time to make a major decision . |
| 26 | She was the match of a thousand serving girls . |
| 27 | IT WAS 9.15 on Tuesday night , the din of a thousand jubilant Tories echoed round a Wembley conference hall and the verdict from the critics was that John Major 's final rally address had been a success . |
| 28 | He lived alone in this deteriorating , blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments which like all its counterparts , fell , day by day , into greater entropic ruin . ’ |
| 29 | But the lion 's share of a 300,000 Swiss francs prize fund is an incentive . |
| 30 | The benefits of a successful computerised personnel information system are potentially very great . |