Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 2 | Robyn leans across the passenger seat and winds the window down a little way . |
| 3 | However , the job had to be done , and our training asserting itself , we began to pic up a few bits and pieces . |
| 4 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 5 | and he meet me at Presto and we 'll get your stuff and we 'll get our stuff out the same time erm |
| 6 | Some people like to black out a few teeth . |
| 7 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 8 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 9 | Money out the same time . |
| 10 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 11 | Kate pulled the door back a few inches . |
| 12 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 13 | You may even push your critical steepness up a few degrees ! |
| 14 | ‘ All Gemma had to do was walk up a few stairs to Neha 's . |
| 15 | Cast your minds back a few weeks . |
| 16 | Stopping to pick up her mail from the box on her way out a few days later , she noticed the white envelope with the Andorran postmark straight away . |
| 17 | There had also been rumours that Germany had paid a ransom to get two of their hostages out a few months earlier , and what with Germany breaking ranks , Irangate and now this suspected deal for the French hostages , British newspapers were of full moral outrage at the weakness of other countries and their capitulation in the fight against terrorism . |
| 18 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 19 | She tipped the sunshade back a few inches and let the dazzling rays toast her face . |