Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hurried off and returned a few minutes later with a tiny white gown . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , he agreed ; the apothecary rose and disappeared into the back room , emerging a few minutes later with a small leather bag . |
| 3 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 4 | The second exploded a few minutes later in a wastebin in Cavendish Square , where the store 's 1,500 staff usually gather during safety drills . |
| 5 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 6 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 7 | This statement was disowned some hours later by a Fatah Revolutionary Council spokesperson in Beirut , Walid Khalid . |
| 8 | Daughter Rebecca , seven , was a few paces behind with a relative . |
| 9 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 10 | WITH reference to the recent Echo letter about the £1 con-trick , I also had this same deed played on myself some months ago at a supermarket . |
| 11 | I saw some pictures recently of a famous movie star with a lift … frightening . |
| 12 | She wrote a few words quickly on a piece of paper , and at the last moment added at the bottom : |
| 13 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 14 | Richard Crossman , manager of the Border brewery , Berwick , joined Mann 's as a partner , being joined a few months later by a friend from Berwick , Thomas Paulin . |
| 15 | Fortunately , Quetta was bought a few months later by a retired man , Harold Shoosmith . |
| 16 | I saw some of this ( in hanks ) only a few months ago on a stand at a street market . |
| 17 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 18 | The first time I met them , a few months ago in a London photo studio , they were having confetti dumped over their heads by a girl who plays Gemma in Neighbours . |
| 19 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
| 20 | The knife lies a few feet away in a puddle . |
| 21 | One scene among many that captures the ironic mix of commonplace and macabre has two kids battling over a football , just a few feet away from a dead body . |
| 22 | Alternatively , in some countries previously without a daily paper it has been the government which has started one : there would probably be no daily newspaper in the Central African Republic , Botswana , Niger , Mauritania or Chad had each of these countries ' governments not decided to finance one . |
| 23 | For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University . |
| 24 | The authority 's predecessor river board granted a consent some years ago with a number of parameters : 20 BOD , 100 p.p.m. suspended solids ( relaxed from the usual 30 ) , and various metals , including zinc , consented to the standard 0.5 p.p.m . |
| 25 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 26 | The Law Society 's Accident Legal Advice Service ( ALAS ) started some years ago as a way of promoting personal injury work . |
| 27 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 28 | An initiative first launched some years ago by a member of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , the Hotel Employers Group and education groups were revived in 1992 . |
| 29 | The points at which fighting was fiercest were Shalamcheh and Fish Lake , a reservoir constructed by the Iraqi forces some years earlier as a barrier against anticipated attempts to take Basrah . |
| 30 | CD had already satirized the Movement some years earlier in a piece for The Examiner ( 3 June 1843 ) , ‘ Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Condition of the Persons variously engaged in the University of Oxford ’ ( collected in MP ) . |