Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Okay , working with anybody , just just for just for a few minutes each it 's just because what I want you to experience is what it 's like to continually go over the same thing , I want you to experience that , to continually stick to your guns just experience that okay ? |
2 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
3 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
4 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
5 | From from a few weeks old she 'd be sitting on on there was an old er wreck of a boat there . |
6 | Anyway , it was a bit weird cos we had to go with parties cos they 're all they 're all black and they 're all about six and a half feet tall you know ! |
7 | Forty pounds for those , they cost me about a hundred pounds those you know , the materials |
8 | no , no , no , that 's what I ca n't understand , no I think it 's about a hundred years old you see , probably |
9 | As I , as I said earlier the new boy , the rather elderly new boy but I can assure the Professor if I were a hundred years old I 'd still be younger than 'im . |