Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 2 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd have half the police force here in a few minutes if we did , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 5 | The Director paused and watched the scene below for a few thoughtful seconds , as a squad of house servants bagged and carried out the human remains , and began stripping off the blood-soaked canvas cover from the padded squares underneath , removing it for cleaning . |
| 6 | ‘ I need your help just for a few minutes . |
| 7 | We 'll be taking a look around the scene here in a few moments , but first let's see how the people and town of Cheltenham prepares for the biggest invasion of the year . |
| 8 | The sergeant thought Blanche would be tired after the tension of the previous hour or two , and he expected Blanche to sit at her desk quietly for a few minutes . |
| 9 | Roll the cake up towards that end and hold in place just for a few minutes . |
| 10 | The operation was to have taken place anyway in a few days , but her condition worsened on the flight from Zagreb . |
| 11 | The next day , brush the top of the cake slightly with a little water . |
| 12 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |
| 13 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 14 | But most areas did avoid the rain apart from a few spots of rain over the islands . |
| 15 | He returned an hour later with a few stunted bushes he had managed to prise from the rock . |
| 16 | Then ignore the puppy entirely for a few minutes , emphasizing that no further play will follow under these circumstances . |
| 17 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 18 | Collect the leaves and stems of the plant that the eggs have been laid on , and put them in the cage in a pot of water together with a few more leaves or shoots of the same kind . |
| 19 | Thus tunicates ( creatures distantly related to vertebrates , and commonly known as ‘ sea-squirts ’ ) naturally accumulate vanadium or titanium which are present in sea water only in a few parts per billion . |
| 20 | I must , however , give United credit for a ten-minute service daily with a half hourly service evenings and Sundays . |
| 21 | He watched her face as she scanned the street and the square ahead for a few seconds and then moved on . |
| 22 | Water again after a few days and start feeding in June . |
| 23 | They rolled around on the ground together for a few moments and then the boy 's mother came out and gave him Sergeant 's leash . |
| 24 | The planners , a fifteen-member committee combining Japanese and Dutch know-how , selected a site on which they specifically avoided the arbitrary jumbling together of a few replicas . |
| 25 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 26 | He became convinced that his nose was deformed and saw another analyst regularly for a few months , but he recovered — at least until the next lot of symptoms after he rejected her advice and interpretations and simply told himself to stop thinking about his nose so much . |
| 27 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 28 | However the use of statistical techniques in linguistics fell from general use apart from a few ‘ marginal ’ applications . |
| 29 | In Spain for example , where the social importance of a commission was comparatively slight , would-be officers were required to prove noble descent only in a few calvary regiments . |
| 30 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |