Example sentences of "from a [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 2 | You will then still have enough material with which to create an attractive picture , rather than try to make a suitable design from a few odds and ends . |
| 3 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 4 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
| 5 | It was empty apart from a few chairs and a couple of tables . |
| 6 | Apart from a few Sikhs and a very irritable Hindu from East Sheen , most of the targeted persons seemed quite pleased to be asked . |
| 7 | But apart from a few sparrows and a robin redbreast the branches were bare . |
| 8 | There might be the very occasional gift for a personal service , but the bottle of beer from a few householders and especially from the publicans was the only obvious economic transaction , and was rarely ennobled as a ‘ payment ’ for services rendered . |
| 9 | In the early days of " Darwinism " , when the race was on to find tangible evidence of the " missing link " between apes and men , it was again from Indonesia that , from a few molars and shreds of skull , Java Man and Gigantopithecus would briefly rise to claim the title . |
| 10 | Sir Henry Curtis perched upon a rock bleeding from a dozen wounds but fighting on with the remnant of the Greys against the hordes of Twala was too heroic . |
| 11 | The competition attracted pilots from a dozen nations and , by all accounts , had a touch of ‘ Those Magnificent Men … ’ about the proceedings . |
| 12 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 13 | Well perhaps it 's the shape of the if they go in threes and the other three perhaps approach from a different stairs and it comes up , you know the type I mean ? |