Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 2 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 3 | This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 5 | I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily . |
| 6 | Members of the senior management team who will be responsible for guiding and shaping the Board to meet the many challenges and opportunities of the future are … |
| 7 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 8 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 9 | Keep the rudder where it is and allow the speed to increase a few knots so that both you and the student can observe the exact position of the rudder pedals . |
| 10 | Cough worse ( < ) lying down which causes the most violent cough to appear a few moments later . |
| 11 | David Young , the Lions prop , has recovered from his hamstring strain in time to be included in the Cardiff side to tackle the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 12 | The Cambridge based project forms the ‘ umbrella ’ to wider collaborative research in which several independently financed groups will work in other countries using a similar methodology to address the same issues . |
| 13 | These poltroons seems to think that it 's a big deal to hoist a few pints of Smithwicks after an afternoon spent with their heads stuck up some geezer 's back passes . |
| 14 | Smith went on Ireland 's recent tour of North America and the stand-off is now hoping to gain selection for Leinster in a push for a place in the Irish side to face the All Blacks next month . |
| 15 | On a warm day , the instructions said , it would be sufficient for the horseman to place a few drops on his perspiring forehead to call his horses from a fair distance without saying a word , or making any sound . |
| 16 | It 's just a desperate attempt to get a few votes ’ . |
| 17 | The following summary of ideas on stress placement in nouns , verbs and adjectives is an attempt to present a few rules in the simplest possible form . |
| 18 | As we shall see , the attempt to employ the same concepts to describe quite different tasks was a common phenomenon among young nationalists . |
| 19 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
| 20 | The more times we successfully complete a manoeuvre , the more opportunity we are giving the mind to reproduce the same movements . |
| 21 | I know that a question has already been asked about export credit guarantees , but does not my right hon. Friend feel that the Government could be more pragmatic , constructive and helpful in assisting manufacturing industry to gain the many orders for capital equipment in the Soviet Union and eastern European countries that can not proceed because of the Department 's failure to grant export credit cover ? |
| 22 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 23 | For the museum to attract the same visitors more than once there must be some evidence of change . ’ |
| 24 | Both are hoping to develop the reading habit , to encourage the child to explore the many pleasures of reading ( and of the growing number of items in audio-visual format ) , and to gain practice in this essential skill as well as in discrimination . |
| 25 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 26 | There are few short cuts in any weight loss regime , but new light metal alloys and ceramics will probably enable the smaller diesel engine to shed a few pounds . |
| 27 | Everyone is aware that the Chancellor has a difficult ordeal to face a few hours later and no one wants to make the occasion even worse . |
| 28 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 29 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 30 | ‘ Sounds a good place to plant a few informers . ’ |