Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started organising puppy parties for my clients a few months back , using a good dog trainer to co-ordinate the parties and a local church hall as the venue . |
| 2 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
| 3 | After looking out into the daylight , it took my eyes a few seconds to adjust . |
| 4 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 6 | I had spotted this on my travels a few months previous to this time and had made a mental note to return and search it . |
| 7 | ‘ Touch my toes a few times first . |
| 8 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 9 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 10 | HAR DAR DA The complete understanding that all the soil of Myrin passes through the bodies of its earthworms every ten years |
| 11 | The GlenDee Knitters hold their meetings every four weeks on Thursday evenings at 7.30pm . |
| 12 | In their discussions the fundamental differences between the two sides slowly emerged : the legal position of the king-duke and the lands held by him ; and , secondly , the problem of which lands the French were to control . |
| 13 | She cleaned her teeth every three hours and had Juicy fruit continually at the ready in case he wanted to kiss her . |
| 14 | This has been manifested in a number of ways including the birth of interdisciplinary journals such as Quaternary Research ( 1970- ) and Boreas ( 1972- ) and Quaternary Science Reviews ( 1982- ) ; of national organizations for Quaternary Scientists including AMQUA in America , DEUQUA in Germany , NORDQUA in Scandinavia and the QRA ( Quaternary Research Association ) in Britain ; of the growth of the International Union for Quaternary Research ( INQUA ) with its meetings every 4 years and many commissions which coordinate research in many fields ; and of international cooperation under the auspices of the International Geological Correlation Programme ( IGCP ) which includes Quaternary investigations within its endeavours . |
| 15 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 16 | account holders will receive statements of their accounts every three months , so they know exactly how fast their savings are growing . |
| 17 | As soon as they finished with their books the two girls made him tea . |
| 18 | The island spans over 200 miles by road from north to south and within its borders the proud Sardinians are happy to boast their own language , customs and intriguing culture . |
| 19 | And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber |
| 20 | When it was chopped down it became the Amazon , its branches the many tributaries . |
| 21 | As a monthly , the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores , nor preview the week 's to matches . |
| 22 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |
| 23 | In 1929 legislation provided for each county council to review the boundaries of its districts every ten years ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:202 ) . |
| 24 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 25 | In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact . |
| 26 | With her films The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman in addition to ten years at Covent Garden , she had , I think , done as much as anyone to help put British post-war ballet on the map . |
| 27 | The catering department at the Dome Leisure Centre , Doncaster , refitted its kitchens a few years ago and , with its suppliers ' advice , chose equipment which anticipated the five degree temperature requirements . |
| 28 | The present Constitution promulgated in April 1973 provides for a parliamentary system and a bicameral federal legislature consisting of a 217-member lower house ( the National Assembly ) elected every five years and an 87-member upper house ( the Senate ) elected every six years , with one-third of its members relinquishing their seats every two years . |
| 29 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 30 | Duly recovered from their exploits the two aeronauts made a more leisurely departure for Birmingham , in a chaise and four , at 3.00am the next morning . |