Example sentences of "with [noun] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter is written with humility and with admiration by a former librarian whose strategy , when dealing with troublesome readers , was to go to pieces and leave it to Nancy . |
| 2 | Julie Godwin , pictured above with Sophie at a few months old , was raped and killed with her holiday pal Elizabeth Over as the pair sunbathed on a beach in South Africa . |
| 3 | Some of the males were injected with morphine for a few days and some were given other drugs . |
| 4 | The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital . |
| 5 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 6 | He served in her , with breaks of a few days , until 12 March 1781 , when he moved to the Foudroyant ( 80 guns ) as acting lieutenant , staying until the end of October . |
| 7 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 8 | The sergeant confirmed that that happened with bodies after a few days . |
| 9 | This place will be humming with staff in a few minutes . ’ |
| 10 | He went out with Naomi for a few minutes and then it was my turn for a little chat . |
| 11 | Decisions , then , should be made on a much more impressionistic basis ( intuition mixed with analysis of a few alternatives ) , provided that the actions taken do not offend the organization 's ideologies . |
| 12 | The charts entitled ‘ One-way channels ’ and ‘ Two-way channels show where people say they currently get their information ; the ‘ Supervisors and Grapevines ’ chart compares your department results regarding these two channels with results from a few other departments . |
| 13 | The sources that ISO will be investigating will generally be clouds of dust in space , with temperatures from a few hundred degrees down to only 30 K. The warmer dust clouds are found close to stars , either in dark nebulae adjacent to stars that have just formed , or in the ejected shells of matter from old stars , called planetary nebulae . |
| 14 | Some of the radioactive krypton isotopes with half-lives of a few hours may also have been released ( US NUREG-0558 , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 16 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |