Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It vanished from the boathouse a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 2 | through a snow a couple of weeks ago |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I mean , if anyone saw that television programme a couple of weeks ago , about those prisoners who put on Guys and Dolls , |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 9 | ‘ We took a battering down there in the Autoglass Trophy a couple of weeks ago and we badly need to put things right . |
| 10 | I got a real complex a couple of years ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 15 | Turtles , Bart Simpson or Garfield are all just run of the mill a piece of cake even . |
| 16 | The society has enshrined in law a status for women far different from that of biblical women . |
| 17 | Standing below the route in the sun a couple of days later . |
| 18 | Kissin , aged 18 , came to prominence a couple of years ago when he appeared to great acclaim at the Berlin Festival . |
| 19 | The other , even more revealing letter , was written early in 1945 , after Walter had spent part of a long leave with Viola and the children ( now alone , with divorce a matter of months away ) in their London flat . |
| 20 | On the verge of bankruptcy a couple of years ago , Hannibal was rescued by an American company in a deal which left Boyd in charge as manager of the label . |
| 21 | Incidentally , the P-40 in the RAF Museum at Hendon was based on a picture my father had of FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ which I had donated to the Museum a number of years ago for such a display . |
| 22 | If , for example , a hotelier contracts for a window cleaner to clean all the outside windows of the hotel and , while undertaking this job , the person contracted falls and is injured , although the hotelier owes the window cleaner a duty of care under s. 2(1) OLA 1957 , the extent of this duty is modified by the fact that window cleaners will themselves guard against the ordinary risks of carrying out the job and thus the hotelier may not be liable for their injuries . |
| 23 | ‘ That issue a couple of months ago was far too soft on transnational corporations ' involvement with the Latin American military . ’ |
| 24 | We got into a partnership with them to develop a small engine a couple of years ago , for their application . |
| 25 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 26 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 27 | AN inspired performance from Partick Thistle goal keeper Andy Murdoch earned his team a point at Ibrox today as Rangers turned in yet another sloppy performance . |
| 28 | There was a big announcement a number of months ago in Derry where a political party said on the headlines of the news about creating 200 jobs in Derry . |
| 29 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 30 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |