Example sentences of "a few [noun] [prep] christmas " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
| 2 | My boyfriend at the time , two friends and I , decided to kick around the Loch Tay area for a few days between Christmas and New Year , since the only decent hotel we could find open was the Ledcreich Hotel at Balquhidder . |
| 3 | One year , a few days after Christmas , I was walking in the Slieve Muck area . |
| 4 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 5 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 6 | A few days before Christmas , Eastman Kodak dumped Interactive Systems Corporation , the half that was left after SunSoft bought its piece a year ago , into the lap of the Ottawa-based integrator SHL Systemhouse Inc for an undisclosed amount of money . |
| 7 | A floundering DEC , now with six consecutive losing quarters blotting its once-sterling record , divided itself into nine strategic business units , as promised by its new president , a few days before Christmas . |
| 8 | A few days before Christmas 1286 , Edward I of England was in his duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 9 | A few days before Christmas her husband will discover her adultery in a manner I will subsequently reveal to you , and in a fit of jealous rage he will push some sharp , thin instrument , a pen , perhaps , or a knitting needle , or a personalised automatic cocktail stirrer purchased from Global Inventions Inc. by mail order , up her left nostril , not to kill or maim , but merely to inflict some pain as a small , desperate expression of his own ; pushing too far , however , he will accidentally pierce the brain . |
| 10 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 11 | David started as a Tuner just a few days before Christmas in 1949 . |
| 12 | ‘ It will fill a few stockings at Christmas . ’ |
| 13 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |