Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [det] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web .
2 Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal :
3 That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat .
4 One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton .
5 In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory .
6 His eyes went a few degrees cooler .
7 About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District .
8 But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’
9 Certain that it was the only true begetter of G&S , indifferent to new theatrical styles , D'Oyly Carte presented the same productions year after year , turning them into a rather dreary ritual .
10 I bet its no coincidence that during our Glory Days we had the same players year in year out .
11 They had they had a few minutes silence for him when he died down Framlingham .
12 He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut .
13 He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction .
14 Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment .
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