Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the first pruning , take each stem down to a suitable bud , so that ideally it is reduced to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10 cm ) in length . |
| 2 | They 're obliged to charge us a certain amount for access , but they 're talking about giving us that money back as a grant . |
| 3 | The Empire army may include a proportion of allies , in this case up to a quarter of its total points value . |
| 4 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 5 | It was the strangest part of a detective 's job , this building up of a relationship with the dead , seen only as a crumpled corpse at the scene of crime or naked on the mortuary table . |
| 6 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 7 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 8 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 9 | Get another tape out in a minute Ju ! |
| 10 | Get another tape out in a minute ! |
| 11 | Any diet that takes this weight off in a month or two will probably not be successful in the long term . |
| 12 | ‘ I know how you must feel but I had to be sure you were n't another journalist out for a story . ’ |
| 13 | So I 've set this boy up with a regular income . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 15 | A budget for the 1992-93 biennium , providing for expenditure of US$646,000,000 ( representing a cut in real terms of 4.6 per cent ) , was approved without major controversy [ see p. 37054 for 1989 budget disputes ] , and the USA undertook to pay before January 1992 its arrears for 1991 , which amounted to some $34,000,000 out of a total contribution of around $75,000,000 . |
| 16 | The differential amplifiers used in EEG machines use the difference between the voltages offered by the two inputs , which is normally less than 200 microvolts ( millionths of a volt ) , and amplify this difference up to a voltage sufficient to drive the galvanometer pens — perhaps 0–5 volts . |
| 17 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 18 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 19 | Shake some flour on to a table or pastry mat , if you have one . |
| 20 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 21 | No peering at various heights to see what my ‘ eye ’ can manage to ‘ see ’ … but a really close examination , even to holding some paintings up to a better light when required . |
| 22 | Once the working party had drawn up a schedule of accommodation , illustrated above , it then fell to medical and nursing officers within SHHD , and CSABD , together with colleagues from SDD Building Directorate to work this schedule up into a detailed design guidance . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're having some people in for a drink on Sunday . |
| 24 | Indeed , he and his mates had driven to a house in East Belfast straight from the fracas , to try and tee some pals up for a quick retaliation . |
| 25 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 26 | And the relief of seeing this woman out for a good time , smoking dope , getting drunk , flirting and still not deserving to be raped ! |
| 27 | My brother and I are having a few people in for a drink before lunch on Sunday . |
| 28 | TOURISTS IN WHITE SLEEKS AND ROBOT CARTS HUSTLING BUSINESS FOR THE HOTELS TABITHA JUTE IS TRYING TO GET SOME SENSE OUT OF A CREDIT OUTLET OUT OF AN ENTIRE ROW OF THEM . |
| 29 | This excellent quiz type program for up to four players is well worth ordering for those evenings you have a few friends round for a couple of drinks . |
| 30 | Because of the obvious internal party difficulties the Prime Minister and his senior colleagues were trying to coax this treaty through on a hugely negative and defensive basis . |