Example sentences of "a [noun] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 2 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 3 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 4 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 5 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 6 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
| 7 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Twenty-third July — sitting under a tree a few yards from my slit trench writing a letter to my parents in Glasgow . |
| 10 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 11 | It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection . |
| 12 | As they drew closer , they could see that the sides of the surrounding containers were covered with a gleaming wetness , spattered to a height a few feet above their heads . |
| 13 | The new eukaryotic cell was porous , and surrounded by a membrane a few ten-millionths of a millimetre thick . |
| 14 | Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves . |
| 15 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 16 | Their first project , the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness , exemplifies this belief . |
| 17 | There was no smile on his face now , however , as he stepped out of the site of the Reconciliation — known euphemistically as the Retreat — to find Dowd sitting perched on a shooting-stick a few yards from the door . |
| 18 | He would rather have parachuted out of an aircraft a dozen times with full equipment in the dead of night , than spend a night on a ship . |