Example sentences of "[art] [noun] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 2 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 3 | Tommy asked when the duty corporal entered the barracks a few minutes before lights out . |
| 4 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 5 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 6 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 7 | Lewis had backed the car a few feet down the ramp and was about to turn towards the Cherwell Arms when he heard his master 's voice — a single hissed and incredulous blasphemy : |
| 8 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 9 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 10 | The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up . |
| 11 | Off Ian pedalled , to arrive at the pub a few seconds before Sally , but having been companions in adversity throughout the whole way , neither was going to claim outright victory , so agreed to declare a draw . |
| 12 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
| 13 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 14 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 15 | Elder Seth had known Gibbon , and apparently given the Englishman a few insights into the fragility of civilization . |
| 16 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
| 17 | Max now exposed Kemp 's torso and heaved the corpse a few inches off the table . |
| 18 | Before that , in 1854 , Bradbury and Evans had published a series of twenty-one plates with the title A few leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of Nature-Printing . |
| 19 | It was headed by Det Supt Bill Coady , who sat grim-faced with fellow detectives in the court a few feet from the dock as the verdicts were announced , to gasps from the court 's public gallery . |
| 20 | Rushing Wild 's jockey , Richard Dunwoody , gave Dwyer a pat on the back a few yards after the winning post . |
| 21 | Last night rescuers used airbags to prise the wreck a few inches off the ground . |
| 22 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 23 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 24 | Poach all the mixture a few spoonfuls at a time , draining the cooked ‘ islands ’ on a folded tea towel . |
| 25 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 26 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 27 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 28 | It happened in 1913 at Senghenydd in mid-Glamorgan , a mining village just over the hill and the moorland a few miles from my home . |
| 29 | A woman of about 30 lurched out of the Post Office in front of us and staggered down the road a few steps before falling — her exposed thighs and palms making a sickening ‘ slap-smack ’ sound on the pavement . |
| 30 | Nutty received the guff about the competition a few days before the date . |