Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 2 | Picked a few parcels and wrappers to Marks and Sparks . |
| 3 | Detectives say a hundred and ninety officers , many of them armed , were involved in Operation Lucy which has smashed a nationwide drugs and guns racket . |
| 4 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 5 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 6 | An initial inspection of the loco , still in impeccable condition externally , has revealed a few problems and it is hoped that the Standard will be back in service sooner than the two to three years expected for overhaul . |
| 7 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 8 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 9 | Although basically the same as that given in the Warhammer rulebook , we have made a few additions and included more explanation , so we suggest you read through these new rules even if you are already familiar with the original ones . |
| 10 | Some of their later records have produced a few hits but though it is thoughtful , well-made music , something 's missing . |
| 11 | I 've still got a few odds and ends that are late |
| 12 | got a few clothes and the better . |
| 13 | We have got a few members but enjoy ourselves . |
| 14 | ‘ Les has had a few problems but he could do very well alongside Deanesy . ’ |
| 15 | Now you have had a few crackles but they 've been fairly easily sorted out . |
| 16 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 17 | I 've been out on the on the streets and the roads and we 've had a few beers and I 've not seen any trouble but the first I 've heard of trouble was was this morning after breakfast in a nearby hotel and and by by the trouble that 's been caused I do n't know the details of it but I believe it 's been quite intense really . |
| 18 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 19 | Lot number thirty five Lot number thirty five there we are , there it is showing , Lot number thirty five , eighty pounds for this one , at eighty , eighty five , ninety , ninety five , one hundred is offered I 'm offered a hundred pounds and selling for one hundred , all done ? |
| 20 | Erm so I 've bought a few bottles and I do n't |
| 21 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 22 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 23 | The Soviet-American joint venture ‘ 21st-Century Technologies ’ has given a million roubles and a truckful of restoration materials has arrived in Moscow , courtesy of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt . |
| 24 | She signs a contract , is given a generous clothes and household goods allowance . |
| 25 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 26 | the county keeper was shaken a few times but not often stirred |
| 27 | The man 's foot had broken a few spokes and the chain had come off , but there was no other damage . |
| 28 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 29 | ‘ He has won two championship medals , he 's played a million games and he 's got the character to overcome setbacks like the one at Ibrox . ’ |
| 30 | He has played a few games and had received treatment . |