Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 2 | I could have done with a few . |
| 3 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 4 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 5 | ‘ The only difference between the lineouts this year and last is that you can get penalised in a few more areas . |