Example sentences of "[pron] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 2 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |
| 3 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 4 | That has limited his appearances in top championships , which a world-beater needs in the final sharpening up process . |
| 5 | The Peleus had been sunk at 7.30 p.m. ; Eck therefore had a whole night 's steaming to put himself a hundred miles from the sinking before submerging at dawn . |
| 6 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 7 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 8 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 9 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 10 | I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen . |
| 11 | He says to her aye , he says , I could tell you a few things about Fiona that 'll make your hair curl . |
| 12 | ‘ He is fully committed for several weeks ahead , but he could spare you a few minutes at the end of his list one day . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We would like to ask you a few questions about Andrew Livesey . |
| 14 | ‘ I just wanted to ask you a few questions about your neighbour , Gladys Brown . |
| 15 | ‘ Constable Aplin and I came here to ask you a few questions about a certain matter . |
| 16 | So I 'd like to ask you er , I 'll move on and ask you a few questions about places you 've lived in the past . |
| 17 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 18 | We , in return , had better give you a few tips on how to behave in a Grenadier battalion or you 'll come badly unstuck . ’ |
| 19 | Let me give you a few tips on how to make your pockets bulge … |
| 20 | Dangerous thing to say we 've already said , but preparing notes is lastly down to yourselves , I might give you a few tips on that . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe the Commander could give you a few tips for your essay , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ Cheer up , ’ he went on , ‘ I 'll bring you a few cigarettes in a minute when Arthur 's opened the gate . ’ |
| 23 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 24 | I will offer you a few examples of what this means for the British Library , in particular in its role as the provider of sources for historical research . |
| 25 | Let me give you a few examples of the way in which our departments work . |
| 26 | If I mention them and then perhaps give you a few examples of the sort of facilities which erm which we have available . |
| 27 | ‘ I could tell you a few tales about yon place , ’ she remarked , jerking her head in the direction of Dudley House . |
| 28 | We 've used both Danish Blue and Lurpak in our recipes to show you a few ways of bringing a flavour of the Continent to your cooking . |
| 29 | There are , after all , even larger numbers : 10 46 , for instance , is not just larger ; you must add 10 40 to itself a million times in order to obtain 10 46 What if we could somehow muster a gang of 10 46 monkeys each with its own typewriter ? |
| 30 | It is very heated and more than anything else I have done would take me a million miles from the safety of Ramsay Street , ’ she said . |