Example sentences of "with a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dresser was crammed with a thousand things beside plates , old envelopes and letters , mousetraps , rags , pipes and screws of black tobacco in papers , and every chair was heaped with clothing , shirts and coats and cloaks . |
| 2 | In August 1828 , after a small exchange of fire , Monteiro landed with a thousand troops under Colonel José António de Azevedo Lemos . |
| 3 | [ to BELVILLE ] Honoured sir , your last proposal to me convinces me I ought not to stay , so , with a thousand thanks for all favours , I will set out for home tomorrow early . |
| 4 | His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock ; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist . |
| 5 | The central plank of the proposals is to give the county court the power to deal with a substantial numbers of cases , particularly injury cases , reserving the High Court for complex and specialist cases . |
| 6 | The central plank of the proposals is to give the county courts the power to deal with a substantial numbers of cases , particularly injury cases , reserving the High Court for complex and specialist cases . |
| 7 | Much of the value of the method outlined in 6.1 for converting into numbers the phonetic values associated with a variable lies in its simplicity and replicability in a wide range of cases . |
| 8 | Indeed , the line between ‘ predation ’ and dispersal mechanism is hazy in that plants with a small numbers of seeds in any season may lose the whole crop to ‘ dispersal agents ’ . |
| 9 | This leaves the Commission wondering what to do with a million tonnes of prime beef — and it is prime beef , because intervention accepts only the very best steer beef . |
| 10 | Midnight and a silvered road of dreams , a black field shot with a million bursts of white — the name is glow-worm , the sight is magic . |
| 11 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 12 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 13 | The extra sappers were in place in a week , and the big hooped bombards and mortars , repositioned , were firing their three-hundred pounders as frequently as bombards were ever able to do , with a hundred balls beside each to do it with . |
| 14 | Mind you , with a hundred years of refinement and improvement behind it , you still ca n't afford to ignore good old ‘ Sutton Globe ’ . |
| 15 | He killed a hundred pheasants with a hundred shots at his friend Sir Richard Sutton 's estate of Lyndford , and in Scotland 97 grouse with 97 shots . |
| 16 | The Tiger Islands , the Brujas Islands and the Trinidad Islands are the summits of drowned hills , covered with tropical jungle and noisy with a hundred kinds of colourful birds . |
| 17 | Most keys of this type appear to be marked in this way , with a varying numbers of Xs used to aid identification . |
| 18 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 19 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 20 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
| 21 | Many of the upland landscapes today are like patch-work quilts of forest and open moorland , with a few areas of upland bogs preserved for their rare , wild , moorland plants . |
| 22 | Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it . |
| 23 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 24 | ‘ When I have often heard ’ is in the 1692 word-book ; the Plaint is on a single-sheet insert bound into the 1693 word-book , with a few lines of dialogue to cover the joins . |
| 25 | Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation . |
| 26 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 27 | How distant that sounds and , on a train , it is a full 19 hours , with a few stops in Germany on the way . |
| 28 | We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution . |
| 29 | I have seen an old lighterman take a loaded barge across the Thames in the Pool of London with a few strokes of his sweep — and a canny use of the tide . |
| 30 | Beginning with a few notes on the back of an envelope , the Bill expanded rapidly . |