Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was still the kind of work that I wanted to do , and if I thought very much a comprehensive schools it was in a spirit of mild disquiet . |
| 2 | ‘ How interesting that after only a few hours you know so much about me . |
| 3 | If this helps only a few teachers it would still be one step towards our goal of all participants in classes joining the Society . |
| 4 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 5 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 6 | After only a few days we were both madly in love , not just with each other , but with this beautiful island in the sun and with Crystal Springs , which we found by accident . |
| 7 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 8 | Having used version 5.5 for only a few days I could never go back . |
| 9 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 10 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 11 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 12 | Just a few things she has to do . ’ |
| 13 | There are just a few questions I 'd like to ask you . |
| 14 | Besides — ’ again she pried her eyes away from the eyeglasses and looked at her cousin ‘ — in just a few minutes you are going to be transformed into a femme fatale . |
| 15 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 16 | In just a few moments you can see how much easier your working life could become . |
| 17 | For just a few seconds she stood petrified ; then , taking a deep , shuddering breath , she ran down the entry and into Lyra Street . |
| 18 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 19 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
| 20 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 21 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 22 | But , yeah , that 's about a hundred miles you see , that would be about right , yeah . |
| 23 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 24 | that I 'm w now , so what I suggest we do , is before we say we must make your premenstrual tension better with various manip various bits and bobs , and there are quite a few things we can do to help . |
| 25 | ‘ And I suppose there are quite a few things I have n't done . |
| 26 | Quite a few days it had taken Madeleine , this sewing . |
| 27 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 28 | been quite a few years she 's been |
| 29 | Det Sgt Gavin Barry , who led one of the groups of uniformed and plain clothes officers , said afterwards : ‘ We 've got quite a few leads we will follow up . |
| 30 | I mean , there 's quite a few husbands I know that absolutely hate being out ! |