Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairyhouse returns next Saturday with an all Flat card which is not , I 'm sure , what punters might want at this famed National Hunt course . |
| 2 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
| 3 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 4 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
| 5 | But roots will out and this month she makes a triumphal re-entry to SoHo in a former high-ceilinged , window-fronted exercise studio directly across from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street . |
| 6 | As the monk studied God 's Word he would frequently find his heart lifting itself up to God for a few brief but intense moments . |
| 7 | The breakthrough came in 1980 , when we received a copy of a letter to Michael Heseltine from a former Labour minister who had been responsible for historic buildings under the previous government . |
| 8 | Most despise Mr Milosevic as a former communist , but find themselves agreeing with him on the Vance-Owen plan . |
| 9 | Erika followed Karl with a few lithe strides . |
| 10 | Essential meaning I introduce Gerry to a few friendly drinks . |
| 11 | Cooks Ferry and Stonebridge for a few small fish to bloodworm through the ice . |
| 12 | ‘ You are in a place hundreds of miles from London with a few paltry soldiers to guard your back . |
| 13 | VRI in a few European locations accounted for about 2000 departures in 86 and 87 . |