Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , Ireland have not won a Five Nations match and their best result was a 21–21 draw with Wales at Cardiff in 1991 . |
| 2 | Joe 's father had worked for her father , and Joe himself had earned a few shillings helping out , when he was a scrawny boy with a runny nose . |
| 3 | Such Maoisms as ‘ Let a hundred flowers bloom ’ and ‘ Imperialism is a paper tiger ’ were anathema to Khrushchev . |
| 4 | CROSBY , STILLS AND NASH , legendary '60s folk-rockers , have added a few dates to follow up their sold-out Albert Hall show at Dublin 's Point . |
| 5 | Finally , since 1989 , DGX has granted a few scholarships to specialise in restoration and conservation . |
| 6 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 7 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 8 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 9 | Just imagine a single garment that can be mixed and matched a million times to look different and devastating every time . |
| 10 | I 've made a few attempts to try to potty train her without any success . |
| 11 | We have just produced a new rights guide , called Accident and Diseases at Work , which is available , hot off the press , on the health and safety stall . |
| 12 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has got a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 13 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 14 | But we have n't got a hundred pounds to give them . |
| 15 | Lot number seventy seven Lot seventy seven Lot number seventy seven is showing for you and I 've got a hundred pounds offered for it and ten , twenty , at one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds , one twenty , you all done ? |
| 16 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 17 | On the parking front in the centre of Nottingham you 'll find a space at St James Street and the Arndale Centre car park but Victoria Centre 's got a few minutes wait at the York Street entrance and Trinity Square still very busy next update in ten minutes time . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 've got a few minutes to spare I would like to see these fields that have caused so much bother . ’ |
| 19 | With the diving you 've got a few decisions to make — some things to avoid , some personal choice — and it 's worth getting it right . |
| 20 | Well she 's certainly got a few glands coming up . |
| 21 | You 'll have to excuse me now , I 've still got a few things to see to before my audience arrives . |
| 22 | No I do n't think she 's ready quite yet , she 's got a few things to sort out first and that 's definitely not right , she wants to raise the daggerboard not lower it , bit of confusion there about which way to turn the tiller but she 's round safely , she should be looking where she 's going now instead of sorting out all the string . |
| 23 | Yeah ya but as I think , as I say she 's got a few things to do today , sh near the oven Ann . |
| 24 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 25 | Yes , I think we 'll have to have have a good look , yes it 's alright when you 've got a few things to get , but when when you 've got the whole list . |
| 26 | On our drizzly recce day another stunning ‘ climb-me ’ crackline had got a few hearts fluttering — a beautiful , curving hand crack as a main course , a direct finish for dessert and a few spaced rings for spice . |
| 27 | But you 've got a few months left , enough time for a very shrewd operator to move in . |
| 28 | If you 've got a few days to spare , head inland to the 400 million year old Presley Hills . |
| 29 | ‘ It turns out he 's got a human rights record as long as your arm , ’ Trish told me . |
| 30 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |