Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 2 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
| 3 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 4 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 5 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 6 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 7 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 8 | An intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to a few |
| 9 | part of the yard of the Fleet Prison , so called because of a series of murals painted by a former prisoner . |
| 10 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 11 | Andrew Guest , of United , said the proposals for speed restrictions would mean buses travelling over 50 speed humps on a half hour round trip . |
| 12 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
| 13 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 14 | The fund will be available on a claims-made basis to cover any loss suffered by a former shareholder who held shares during the period April 16 to December 1 1990 , and sold that stock at a loss as defined in the settlement agreement . |
| 15 | Why are government bonds which still have eleven months to run regarded as liquid , whereas overdrafts granted for a few weeks are not ? |
| 16 | Lacuna 's eyes closed for a few seconds . |
| 17 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 18 | NATURAL oil compounds produced in a former fish drying plant on the Outer Hebrides will be unveiled today as a promising weapon in the fight against cancer . |
| 19 | But perhaps the most valuable work achieved by CNES in the 1960s lay in co-ordinating the development of the French space industry : in 1964 the decision was taken to build a launch site at Kourou in French Guyana ; in November 1965 the Diamant A rocket was successfully launched from an Algerian site — the swansong of a military programme based in a former French territory . |
| 20 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 21 | The images on our television screens , emerging from fly-on-the-wall documentaries and dramatised accounts have conveyed a picture of gloom and despair ; of sad lives filled with harrowing moments of violence ; these are places of isolation and fear staffed with a few uncaring , and usually male , nurses . |
| 22 | As a few of us stand and look at the Germans , Mills Roberts appears with a few of his Officers . |
| 23 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 24 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 25 | SPRING ushers in a less than joyful seasonal event for local authority officers . |
| 26 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
| 27 | We might enter the room and sing our greeting accompanied by a few dance steps , but ask yourself whether the message might not be obliterated by the way our actions would be interpreted . |
| 28 | The main beneficiaries were those convicted in May 1987 of involvement in a coup attempt led by a former Prime Minister , Col. Diarra Traore , in July 1985 [ see p. 35435 ] . |
| 29 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 30 | Carrick has long stopped hoping , calculating that age and immobility caused by a few excess pounds count against him . |