Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 2 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 3 | Now a group of about 4,000 former residents of the institutions in the 1950s and 1960s has filed a lawsuit against seven religious orders that operated a dozen orphanages or mental hospitals , accusing them of physical , sexual and psychological abuse and seeks damages of almost £1 billion . |
| 4 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
| 5 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
| 6 | I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies . |
| 7 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
| 8 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 9 | What 's more , I intend to say it properly , ’ he declared , reducing speed to turn into a parking area that lay a few yards ahead . |
| 10 | Then , I looked again at a superficially rather strange SF trilogy that appeared a few months ago ( Schrodinger 's Cat , by Robert Anton Wilson , sphere , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | The small town that had a dozen mills and a population of 10,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century had grown by 1890 to a place of 130,000 people and 265 mills , and was called ‘ the greatest cotton-spinning town in the world ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Mona ’ ensures that if you did n't want to strangle Craig McLachlan before , then you will now , whilst ‘ Diddley Daddy ’ , the kooky 12-bar of ‘ Little Girl ’ and the railroad shuffle ‘ Who Do You Love ’ are fundamental lessons from the face that launched a thousand riffs . |
| 13 | ‘ Mona ’ ensures that if you did n't want to strangle Craig McLachlan before , then you will now , whilst ‘ Diddley Daddy ’ , the kooky 12-bar of ‘ Little Girl ’ and the railroad shuffle ‘ Who Do You Love ’ are fundamental lessons from the face that launched a thousand riffs . |
| 14 | It was ‘ The face that launched a thousand dredgers … . ’ |
| 15 | With hands still firmly on hips , Joan went on to become the face that launched a thousand mannequins |
| 16 | Andy McDonald : ; The Look that launched a dozen acts |
| 17 | Later , as night crept over the Rorim , they met in Riven 's room and shared a few pitchers of ale . |
| 18 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 19 | Kathleen answered the phone , listened for a minute and asked a few questions , and then cradled the receiver with a groan . |
| 20 | Now already , she 's had a wash and a workout or two , and read a few books and she thinks she 's the answer to an Amazon 's prayer . |
| 21 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 22 | I went on CBC last month and sold a hundred books , some of them away up in the Yukon … my publishers are getting out another book … my fifteenth . |
| 23 | Then I got into a phone-box and made a reverse charges call to Auntie Jean , who was drunk and abusive as usual . |
| 24 | So , after a little research in Bangkok , I wrote a few letters and made a few calls and found a Brother distributer . |
| 25 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 26 | Delmar Benjamin 's GeeBee Replica flew each day and made a few passes around the pylons . |
| 27 | You get the impression Ruud and Marco could have taken their skills anywhere in the world , found success and made a few friends as well . |
| 28 | ‘ We had received a number of complaints about bouncing cheques and made a few inquiries into the businessmen and their activities . |
| 29 | Then Amanda had lain on the bed and made a few suggestions which insulted his experience ; he 'd fumbled hurriedly with zips and cuff buttons , his Calvinistic conscience retreating into its corner , and then exultation was running through him like the roar of the crowd the night Jim Watt had won his title . |
| 30 | Connor plunged his hand into his pocket and produced a few coins , which he tossed into the cup . |