Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canoeing is mostly grade I racks with a few tight grade I+/II shoots ; there is one grade II at Bogroy footbridge , a twisting descent over 3 rock ledges , and the photographically spectacular grade III in the centre of Carrbridge itself . |
| 2 | Nobody cares about a few thousand Masai . |
| 3 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 4 | Unmarried , she lives in a former doctor 's surgery in Crook which doubles as the constituency office . |
| 5 | ‘ She wakes for a few minutes and then is unconscious for several hours , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 6 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 7 | There are dozens of them , some with very good outdoors and walking sections and it 's an unusually restrained visitor who leaves without a few extra pounds in the backpack . |
| 8 | Here , in a role that might have better suited Peter Sellers , or , more authentically , Alberto Sordi , he goes through a few variations on Ben Braddock and Jason Fister , the agent in his first Italian misadventure . |
| 9 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
| 10 | He sounds like a such a wanker when he does it though . |
| 11 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 12 | I do n't mind if he reads for a few minutes but that 's it . |
| 13 | He knows what he 's galloping , he knows within a few pounds what he wants . |
| 14 | The other is a slim footbridge carried on the piers of what looks like a former railway viaduct . |
| 15 | The French Commandos have the heavy baseplate out of the ground and the mortar assembled and in action in what seems like a few seconds . |