Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might get a bit of a mixture a few other birds not always sparrows . |
| 2 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 3 | He is drinking soda pop out of a can the same shrill dayglo orange colour as emergency road markings . |
| 4 | The European past , with its record of interaction between conflicting civilizations , religions , and cultures , lacked the unity and ‘ all-embracing certainty ’ of the Chinese and so presented historical problems of a kind the latter never encountered . |
| 5 | Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves . |
| 6 | It gives all members of a group the same set of attributes . |
| 7 | Lee found herself gazing at the pubes of a woman a little way along from her and thinking about undergrowths and mazes and secrets and magic and dirt . |
| 8 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 9 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 10 | For a time a few gifted minds became a collective powerhouse , charged with a brilliance that still shines like a lighthouse from the badlands of ignorance . |
| 11 | The question then arises whether it is right to attribute to Parliament as a whole the same intention as that repeatedly voiced by the Financial Secretary . |
| 12 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
| 13 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 14 | It 's it 's not worth a marriage no more because the C S A and because of people like them sat there that think they know it all . |
| 15 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 16 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 17 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 18 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 19 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 20 | If the children get half a dozen whacks with a slipper a few times a year , surely it 's not abuse ? |
| 21 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 22 | ‘ We can , of course , come up with a quotation the same day if it 's required urgently , and in the not too distant future we aim to give on-the-spot quotations . ’ |
| 23 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 24 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 25 | Twenty-third July — sitting under a tree a few yards from my slit trench writing a letter to my parents in Glasgow . |
| 26 | Within a minute the same Paul Cook was discharging another defence splitting ball , unfortunately it was his own defence and Mike could only beat out Martin Carruthers ' shot into the path of Mark Steen as we know . |
| 27 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 28 | Their first project , the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness , exemplifies this belief . |
| 29 | The law of nuisance , therefore , affords little or no protection either to a complainant who is unduly sensitive to an odour emission , or where the use interfered with is a sensitive one , as when the taste of biscuits manufactured under controlled conditions , was adversely affected by odorous fumes from a source a few miles away . |
| 30 | His mother was hunting , his father watching from a rock a little way off , and Creggan was trying to win food from his bigger stronger sibling , another male , who had been born before him . |