Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones searches for chinks of light in a dark age for women 's tennis David Foot on a former champion and her bright sparks aiming high in Cardiff . |
| 2 | Jones searches for chinks of light in a dark age for women 's tennis David Foot on a former champion and her bright sparks aiming high in Cardiff . |
| 3 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 4 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 5 | The German had intended to ride his Olympic gold medal partner , Walzerkoenig , on Saturday night until a few hours earlier when it was discovered that the horse 's off-foreleg was inexplicably swollen . |
| 6 | After standing silently looking up at the Brooklyn sky for a few minutes , and reciting a poem , she then jumped back into the car . |
| 7 | The driver stopped the jeep outside the Saulnier farm for a few moments to say goodbye to the farmer , a very good friend to the Commandos , especially No. 6 Commando . |
| 8 | Seaham area for a few codling in the harbour and from the Green Wall . |
| 9 | At a later date , however , the fort was probably moved to lower ground and so closer to the site of the future town ; two pieces of cavalry equipment from the Bleachfield Road area plus a few Claudian coins and some slight remains of early timber-framed buildings , might be thought to support this view . |
| 10 | ‘ We are going to arrive at Port au Prince airport in a few minutes . |
| 11 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |
| 12 | An unknown writer observing at the restoration work of 1887 says of the nave , the walls were found to be covered with old surface paintings , and Fielding in his Memories of Malling , writes , " In Halling Church until a few years ago existed the uncouth painting over the chancel arch , variously described as the tale of the unfaithful wife and the emblematic representation of the seven deadly sins . |
| 13 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
| 14 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 15 | Derry went to Croke Park for an All Ireland semi-final meeting with Meath and were well beaten . |
| 16 | Among the most violent incidents during 1990-91 were the July 1990 killing of Ian Gow [ see p. 37623 ] ; the September shooting of a former Gibraltar Governor [ see p. 37720 ] ; the October IRA " human bomb " attacks [ see p. 37784 ] ; the November rocket attack on the home of a Belfast High Court judge [ see p. 37869 ] ; the February 1991 IRA mortar attack on Downing Street and attacks on mainland railway stations [ see pp. 38019-20 ] ; and the March 1991 Craigavon killings [ see p. 38112 ] . |
| 17 | Example 1 is the hook riff from a well known Huey Lewis tune from a few years back . |
| 18 | It was a terrible journey reducing the Masai nation to a few hundred survivors . |
| 19 | You 'll no worry about that Rocastle business after a few wee snifters of Teachers ’ … |
| 20 | Following the outstanding results for continental furniture achieved in London and New York last season , Christie 's produced a confident catalogue for their 4 November New York sale with a few outstanding lots , most of which sold , although only just . |
| 21 | In fact he would have a selling job to do , but could hardly ask Jim Cavalier for a few hints . |
| 22 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 23 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 24 | My boyfriend at the time , two friends and I , decided to kick around the Loch Tay area for a few days between Christmas and New Year , since the only decent hotel we could find open was the Ledcreich Hotel at Balquhidder . |
| 25 | Gabrielle went to stay with her parents in the Kent countryside for a few days after the hearing , collected her thoughts and decided to carve out a life for herself and her children . |
| 26 | To handle the change of tree computationally , we must specify how the parent function P' of T' may be determined from P. Experimentation with a few examples will show that the following rules have the desired effect . |
| 27 | Diana is expected to leave Wood Farm after a few days to spend the rest of the Christmas holiday with her brother Earl Spencer . |
| 28 | Later he put aside his grief to invite successor Bill Clinton to the White House for a few tips on settling in . |
| 29 | All cabinet council meetings took place in the west wing of the White House within a few feet of the Oval Office . |