Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 2 | Listen to talks — read articles — then jot down a few headings on what message is being conveyed . |
| 3 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 4 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 5 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 6 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 7 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 8 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 9 | Out into the spooky snicket and down a few yards towards the churchyard . |
| 10 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 11 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 12 | It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory . |
| 13 | Write down a few examples of when you last ( i ) provided food , clothing or other " necessities " for the addict in your life because he or she can not afford them . |
| 14 | I jotted down a few extracts from The Boyfriends . |
| 15 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 16 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 17 | Even among perhaps a hundred girls in their year , they must have known each other quite well . |
| 18 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 19 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 20 | Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider . |
| 21 | Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters . |
| 22 | DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss . |
| 23 | I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry . |
| 24 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 25 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 26 | perhaps a few blows to the side of the head with an axe ? |
| 27 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
| 28 | This completes the circuit in the switch so a current flows to the lamp 's electrodes and heats them , The glow discharge stops when the contacts touch ; the strip cools off and the contacts reopen . |
| 29 | Well , right , erm so a three bars of chocolate , there 's one in the hundred grams , will cost you twenty eight pence . |
| 30 | Even so a few hints about the frailty of Rose 's nature might not come amiss . |