Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 32 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 33 | ‘ I shall leave England in a few months ’ time . ’ |
| 34 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 35 | I was in Sydney for a few weeks , and had an affair with a broad . |
| 36 | It was only a vote in the Commons at 11 p.m. that brought the evening to an end and then she returned to Downing Street for a few hours ' work on her boxes before turning in . |
| 37 | The charges follow the death of 21 year old student , Henry Skelton after an all night drink and drugs party on December 2nd . |
| 38 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 39 | Arriving by road from Bodmin in an all day journey delayed by early morning loading difficulties and resultant time and route restrictions into Devon , the NRM loco finally arrived just before 8.00 pm . |
| 40 | ) Not wanting to be away from Previn for long periods , Mia crossed the Atlantic on a few weekends during the shooting . |
| 41 | No but I did say about it Lester Piggott on a few weeks ago . |
| 42 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 43 | Regional Airlines : Established only this year , and operating from Jan Smuts with a former SAAF ‘ founding father ’ Dakota III 6871 ( on charge January 1944 , on to SAA in November 1953 and Namibair in 1978 ) ZS-DIW . |
| 44 | Whittaker says there was a five-month search for Archie Norman 's successor but admits that his and Mulcahy 's knowledge of Kerr-Muir as a former competitor at Tate & Lyle was ‘ quite helpful ’ . |
| 45 | Two manuscripts , containing poems and the prose Centuries , were purchased by W. T. Brooke for a few pence from two London book-barrows in the winter of 1896–7 , and were identified as Traherne 's by Bertram Dobell [ q.v . ] . |
| 46 | Still you could always come back to Malia for a little peace and quiet in the local monastery ! |
| 47 | Have to be in Paris for a few days . |
| 48 | The train stopped at Spean Bridge for a few moments , the platform was almost deserted . |
| 49 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
| 50 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 51 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 52 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 53 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 54 | Milton , the provost believed , should write to the collector of customs to have him tell the threatened tide waiter that he was in no danger , and at the same time secure an order for Main to cross to West Lothian for a few days , around the time of the burgh elections , in order to get him out of the way , for the election of the deacon of the wrights would turn on this single vote . |
| 55 | One in the British Museum ( fig. 77 ) has been known since the eighteenth century and is called the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo after a former owner . |
| 56 | The non-governmental Straits Exchange Foundation ( SEF ) on Jan. 5 protested over the detention in China of a former mainland air force pilot , Lee Hsien-pin , who had defected to Taiwan in 1965 . |
| 57 | This is how the new Thorp two seat trainer will really look when it goes on sale in the UK in a few weeks ' time . |
| 58 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 59 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |
| 60 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |