Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This followed an argument seven months previously about a stewards ' inquiry into a televised race . |
| 2 | FILM star Sylvester Stallone paid £12,500 yesterday for a police box described as Dr Who 's original Tardis . |
| 3 | She rose quietly and went into the pagoda , returning a moment later with a p'i p'a , the ancient four-stringed lute shaped like a giant teardrop . |
| 4 | I flew to Gibraltar on 19 December 1974 , and met up with Mick and Paddy , who had taken the Land Rover , wheelbarrow and kit there on a munitions ship . |
| 5 | For example , there is no need to reset hard copy since the typesetting department can download text straight from a clients ' word-processing or desk top publishing discs . |
| 6 | Well yes we would and you can hear Colin Slater beamed from Molyneaux tonight in a sports special . |
| 7 | Andrew Pask was remanded in custody and will appear in court again in a weeks time . |
| 8 | Cope saw Jones in action a year or so ago , when he narrowly beat Hartlepool 's Kevin Crumplin in the national schools championships semi finals and repeated the victory just in a schools international . |
| 9 | A woman 's been assaulted in her car just yards away from a police station . |
| 10 | CHIRPY Les Dawson was back in a dame 's frock yesterday for a knees up with Linda Lusardi . |
| 11 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 12 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
| 13 | One river close to a pharmaceuticals factory was liberally laced with painkillers . |
| 14 | When Danny returned from the States Sean was well into ultra stalled hand plants assisted by 2 or 3 platform spectators so in a doubles act with Mark Abrook , Danny had to go one better by actually making a hand plant on Mark 's back whilst Mark was doing a backside grind . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've discussed the idea of continental championships in each of the disciplines and bringing the best skiers together for a Masters final late in the season . |
| 16 | There was thefts from persons you know , people , three o'clock in the morning , making their way home from a blues were robbed . |
| 17 | FALLEN tycoon Asil Nadir was arrested in London yesterday during a police inquiry into missing company funds . |
| 18 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 19 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 20 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 21 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |