Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Singapore wants to make Indonesia a counterweight against Malaysia so that Malaysia will not exert too much pressure on it . " |
| 2 | ‘ I heard a story from one of our Wrens that her husband was killed in an accident out there in the Falklands a couple of weeks ago . |
| 3 | The carrots a couple of pound there , they were expensive ! |
| 4 | ‘ It vanished from the boathouse a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 5 | through a snow a couple of weeks ago |
| 6 | Nor was it a matter of money when Thames Television decided to sack Benny Hill a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | To make the experiences and history of society 's criminals less accessible also gives rise to the risk of further marginalising a section of society already relatively powerless . |
| 8 | At the finish the Hungarians outsprinted the Belgians while Ballard/Slater did the same to Williams/Martin a couple of minutes later . |
| 9 | I mean , if anyone saw that television programme a couple of weeks ago , about those prisoners who put on Guys and Dolls , |
| 10 | Of course , there was that er World in Action programme a couple of years ago was n't there , when the Tory MP from Newcastle , I think it was , went on the , on the dole for two or three week , but I |
| 11 | These kids would hang out in The Sombrero in Kensington High Street and Chagueramas in Covent Garden — which became The Roxy Club a couple of years later . |
| 12 | Often the same or a similar fault can occur to the same aircraft a number of sectors later . |
| 13 | A stand-off agreement was struck between the two parties a couple of years ago but observers say the recent death of Savoy president Sir Hugh Wontner may have triggered a fresh attack . |
| 14 | However , this argument was rejected in the House of Lords and Lord Wilberforce ( at p372 ) said that to : … suppose that the assignments were made not by way of sale but by way of security would be to impose upon the parties a form of transaction totally different from that which they had selectednamely , one of saleand of which there was no evidence whatsoever that either of them desired … |
| 15 | Now if you just press the return key a couple of times right , and have a lot of actual and fitted , if you go into option three in the data post depression menu you will notice that the fit of our model is very very different right , so we are now getting a very very good correspondence between actual and fitted , notice that in our original model the thing started to break down at about nineteen thirty , right , just by allowing the intercept to vary , right , over the wartime we 've now got a much better fit throughout the whole period why is that the case ? |
| 16 | Aware that she was causing David a deal of agony just being in the same room as Luther , Beth turned to him now , saying with some tenderness , ‘ And you , David ? |
| 17 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 18 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 19 | ‘ We took a battering down there in the Autoglass Trophy a couple of weeks ago and we badly need to put things right . |
| 20 | The disapproving mother was the reason the actress called a halt to her liaison with actor Mithun Chakraborty a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | I got a real complex a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | She was still smiling at his words a couple of hours later , back in her room . |
| 23 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 24 | The involvement of children as viewers or participants in material classed as indecent or obscene presents a species of harm almost universally acknowledged . |
| 25 | I have n't forgotten either how you rescued me from that drunken Scot in Champers a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 26 | Still more alarmist about the flow of skills and knowledge into the IT industry from the country 's research base was a committee that reported to the Department of Industry a couple of months ago . |
| 27 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 28 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 29 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 30 | Turtles , Bart Simpson or Garfield are all just run of the mill a piece of cake even . |