Example sentences of "with [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 2 | Brush aubergines with half a tablespoon of the olive oil and place on an oiled baking sheet . |
| 3 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 4 | He went downstairs to the rumpus room and rummaged behind the tiny bar , and , after digging through a seemingly endless collection of empty pop bottles , came up with half a bottle of rye and some ginger ale . |
| 5 | ‘ With half a squadron of our helicopters , their guns would melt away into the forest , ’ Mr Ashdown said . |
| 6 | Detectives believe Rachel 's drink was spiked with half a tablet of the designer drug at a private party . |
| 7 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 8 | Zouher Kabbara and his cousin Nadim Kabbara had been arrested at Rome airport with half a kilo of heroin about a month before Coleman arrived on Cyprus . |
| 9 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 10 | I used to go with half a ton of sweets in my back pocket . |
| 11 | For the first dose , the bottle should be succussed 8–12 times , and one tablespoonful of it should be diluted with half a glass of water . |
| 12 | " Stew very slowly one quart of green gooseberries with half a pound of white sugar and enough water to prevent fruit from burning . |
| 13 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 14 | I saw an elderly lady with half a lifetime of raffles behind her and half a dozen tea cosies in her drawer , winning yet another tea cosy and , smiling , handing it back to be re-raffled . |
| 15 | With half a tank of fuel on board , the Renault weighs 1580kg , making it comfortably heavier than any of its chosen rivals and ensuring that the Safrane 's power-to-weight ratio of 108bhp per tonne is the meanest of its class , too . |
| 16 | The food is ‘ maigre ’ ; cold coffee in the morning , with half a piece of bread , lunch a thin soup of rotten vegetables , the evening meal boiled pasta and the same stinking soup . |
| 17 | The wound was clean and dressed ; there was no point in keeping him inside with such a shortage of hospital beds . |
| 18 | He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve . |
| 19 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 20 | Clearly it is impossible to give each of these the attention they merit and I do find EMI makes life extremely complicated with such a plethora of titles ; although each clearly has its place in the EMI scheme of things . |
| 21 | Johnson was an explosive winger , an athlete with such a burst of natural speed that he once competed in the Powderhall Sprint and was capable of holding his own against international sprinters . |
| 22 | With such a variety of similar instruments and competitive rates it is difficult and costly in time for all participants to know exactly the best terms and rates . |
| 23 | With such a variety of floral devices it is inevitable that many comparisons with other second century mosaics are possible . |
| 24 | The fat Major , pleased with such a scene of rural innocence , smiled happily , then , as he waited for his snack , dozed . |
| 25 | He convolutes and wreathes his melodies with such a forcing of rhyme and such a thicket of peculiar and ill-founded analogies , that his meaning is hard to discern . |
| 26 | His exclamation endorsed her suspicion , but why should he be regarding her with such a look of furious triumph on his face ? |
| 27 | She took them with such sweetness , and grace , with such a look of affectionate gratitude and pleasure , that Gabriel felt like the Wise Man who presented frankincense to the Virgin Mary . |
| 28 | She was beginning to have second thoughts about bothering the Police with such a mass of suspicion based on such little tangible fact . |
| 29 | With such a mass of demands something has got to go , and it seems as if ‘ vision ’ is expendable . |
| 30 | In many ways it was an advantage to work broadly with such a mass of detail — cranes , windows , cars and a myraid of tower blocks . |