Example sentences of "[noun prp] and a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
| 2 | Even the critic Arthur Jerome Eddy , who was the author of the first English book on Cubism and a cautious supporter of the movement , was able to write : ‘ In short Picasso and a few followers have reached a degree of abstraction in the suppression of the real and the particular that their paintings represent the same degree of emotion as the demonstration of a difficult geometrical proposition . ’ |
| 3 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 4 | In A.D. 324 Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium and a few years later the Empire was divided into two parts , eastern and western . |
| 5 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
| 6 | There 's a brand new Jag and a few bits of plant up there that need to be repossessed as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | Rains and Daine had owned a piece of Kirk Douglas , a promising young heavyweight whose career had been ended by a ‘ cerebral haemorrhage ’ in the ring , just in time for Kruger and a few others to collect a parcel by betting against him . |
| 8 | Paul Reece stopped this one from Gray and a few minutes later , he prevented Goodman getting his second and Sunderland 's third . |
| 9 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 10 | By dawn , some patchy drizzle seems likely over eastern England and a few showers over both the south east and south west . |
| 11 | It was the stereotyped picture beloved of cartoonists — the family ( Nigel and a few cousins ) , trim in their black on one side of the grave , and the floosie ( Jacqui ) , in an unsuitable black cocktail dress and purple fur-collared coat , weeping on the other . |
| 12 | Altenmarkt , Wagrain , Flachau , St Johann in Pongau and a few others . |
| 13 | Ambulance to Raigmore Hospital , Inverness and a few hours later I was talking to the consultant . |
| 14 | These 30 gunboats were to sail in three divisions , at the head and on the flanks of the flotilla , which in addition would have enjoyed the escort of the eight gun-sloops of the [ French ] royal navy stationed between Havre and St Malo and a few privateers from there and Cherbourg . |
| 15 | The town seemed deserted until a postman appeared and willingly explained that the only Germans there were Gestapo and a few businessmen . |
| 16 | While the Duke of Richmond and a few others remained calm , seeing the essentially limited nature of the outbreaks , some landowners , like Sir Godfrey Webster , temporarily returned from exile , thoroughly enjoyed themselves galloping around the country at night with troops of dragoons or coastguards to hunt down troublemakers . |
| 17 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
| 18 | The easier option is to settle for looking at Milton and Marvell and a few lyrics by Henry Vaughan . |
| 19 | No one can deny that thanks to Champollion and a few others we have succeeded in reading Egyptian hieroglyphics and that we know , in most cases , what they mean . |
| 20 | Ibrox , therefore , could be an acid test for Robertson , Levein and a few others . |
| 21 | Had it not been for Unish and Belig and a few others , we would be there still . |
| 22 | I add a small clump of Java Moss and a few grains of Aquazorb , which helps to keep the water sweet . |
| 23 | After a previous band split up Dermot and a few mates recorded a track for a US compilation CD , called themselves Blink and thought no more about it . |
| 24 | Here you might quote the Clapton Strat , the McGuinn Rickenbacker and a few others ( argue about it amongst yourselves ) . |
| 25 | Amid the banter and foul jibes of the crowd — drunk as all crowds are at a blood-letting — the God-bearer Mary and a few disciples stood numb with horror and dread as they saw their Lord and their champion humiliated , despised and broken . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , and particularly south of the equator , the sea rules : north of 84° there is no land at all , and between 45°S and the Antarctic Circle there is to all intents and purposes none either ( just The Bluffs in New Zealand , a sliver of Patagonia and a few islands , unshakable relics of the British empire ) . |
| 27 | The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb . |
| 28 | The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb . |
| 29 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 30 | And IBM , like Xerox and a few others , encouraged any employee to spend up to 10% of his time on community activities of his choice . |