Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I heard a very interesting conversation on the way down here in that programme Just a Minute |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 3 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 4 | When ( and only when ) five items have accumulated by being added at the end of the previous complete sentence , you reply with the type of shop — in this case obviously a chemist 's shop . |
| 5 | and erm if you listen to things on the radio they they have at the end of a sentence or at the end of some sentence quite a pause for a second before they go on |
| 6 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 7 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 8 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 9 | A few minutes later a police jeep screeched to a halt outside . |
| 10 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 11 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 12 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 13 | A few minutes earlier a JetRanger helicopter had lifted-off from Blackpool bound for Ronaldsway . |
| 14 | It is noted here because it indicates the increasing dissatisfaction of many Edwardian novelists with the high Victorian ideal of the exclusive ‘ home ’ , despite ( or because of ) the fact that in that period , as Walter Crane observed , ‘ the beautifying of houses , to those to whom it is possible , has become in some cases almost a religion ’ . |
| 15 | A few hours earlier a Pakistan lead of hundreds seemed probable . |
| 16 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 17 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 18 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 19 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 20 | A few months later a man living in Herne Bay in Kent found a live earthworm in his garden after a rainstorm . |
| 21 | A few months later a shuttle carried Jaq up to a great black ship circling in orbit . |
| 22 | Leave was refused at first instance and in the Court of Appeal , though a few months later a Practice Direction ( [ 1986 ] 2 All ER 226 ) was issued indicating the collective view of the judges that solicitors should be permitted to appear in the High Court or Court of Appeal in formal or unopposed proceedings . |
| 23 | I was n't therefore able to recommend this film when a few months later a woman from Nottingham requested a loan . |
| 24 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 25 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 26 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 27 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 28 | George Lansbury , speaking at Shoreditch Town Hall in January 1924 , reminded the monarch that ‘ Some centuries ago a King stood against the common people and he lost his head . ’ |
| 29 | Act — making this crime only a summary offence — should be reconsidered . |
| 30 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |