Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't know their church had bin taken over an' wuz bein' used by the Triads , as a front fer a major drugs operation . |
| 2 | AN OIL worker appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday after a 44-hour police operation at a country cottage in Aberdeenshire . |
| 3 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 4 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 5 | After a few minutes Woodruffe said : ‘ You 've got your foot on the brake , Dudley . ’ |
| 6 | After a few minutes Crabb returned to the jetty for some extra weights to overcome his buoyancy and , having fitted these to his satisfaction , set off for the Russian cruiser . |
| 7 | After a few minutes Rose handed the paper back to him . |
| 8 | After a few minutes Jack groped for the bedside table . |
| 9 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 10 | After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats . |
| 11 | After a few minutes Wednesday arrived with about ten boys , Mr Morraine and Matron . |
| 12 | After a few days Anne decided to go back to school . |
| 13 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 14 | In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges ; after a few days resistance Aimar 's citadel capitulated . |
| 15 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
| 16 | After a few seconds Sandison said : ‘ Tell me about the Scots . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Please , Dana , do as I ask ; it 's important , ’ Claudia pleaded , and something in her manner must have got across , for after a few seconds Dana allowed herself to be led towards the café . |
| 18 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 19 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 20 | After a few weeks newspapers lifted their ban on match reports , and while the war was waged on the front page , the struggle for League points gathered pace on the back . |
| 21 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |
| 22 | Now there is additional competition for places in the FA Cup final , following the return to first-team duty of England Under-21 midfielder Gary Owers after a three months absence with a severe pelvic injury , and Welsh international Colin Pascoe , who makes his return after injury in tonight 's reserve match . |
| 23 | Antrim , who face defending champions Down at Casement Park , bring in Tony McCrudden for Andy Healy , while Enda McAtamney returns to the squad after a three months suspension . |
| 24 | Among the hotel facilities there is a small bar and sitting room where guests can relax after a busy days sightseeing . |
| 25 | Hamish Deans and his son George , who were removed from their positions as chairman and vice chairman at the club in May , were on Wednesday charged with fraud after an eight-month police investigation into the club 's affairs . |
| 26 | Guillaume was one of five people charged on Monday after an eight-week police operation . |
| 27 | In The Observer , a normally wise and balanced political commentator outlined a vision of what the English countryside might become if abandoned to nature , which was like something out of a Dark Ages bestiary , a nightmarish waste of swamp and scrub , thick with rats , disease and the remains of derelict farm machinery . |
| 28 | The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters , is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire . |
| 29 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |
| 30 | These will be extended by the opening of a Regional Arts Centre on the site of the former Leith Academy . |