Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1934 the USSR had joined the League of Nations , and six months later they signed a pact with France . |
| 2 | Then a few months later we got a phone call from him asking myself and the singer to come out to Britain , and so we came out . |
| 3 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |
| 4 | Five months later I have a friend and companion who will never be sold or replaced ; a friend who knows more about Clare than anyone else . |
| 5 | Then little invisible tadpole things in the pee swam through the bathwater up the woman 's bottom and laid eggs , and six months later she had a baby . |
| 6 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 7 | Then a few months later he got a job with a trucking company , moved into a new house and eventually got married . |
| 8 | Three months later he sent a proof of Offensive from Q Quasar 13 . |
| 9 | done the work and they just , just a couple of months ago we got a letter taking him to court . |
| 10 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
| 11 | I had a very gory accident with a shopping trolley , but the gash in my leg has healed beautifully , and about two months ago I had a cataract removed ( local anaesthetic : all the rage these days and an absolute doddle ) . |
| 12 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 13 | SOME months ago I saw a television documentary on hostels for young homeless people in London . |
| 14 | Six months ago I acquired a Rottie and can honestly say I am absolutely delighted with my dog . |
| 15 | He 'd heard their shrill voices when he made a routine call and seen Eileen Ryan sitting up in her big bed looking strained and miserable . |
| 16 | plan to check the words where you have a question mark against words in other suitable lists , either lists still to be checked , or in already established lists . |
| 17 | For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds . |
| 18 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 19 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 20 | I was recently down at my local stationers looking for the projector pens when I spotted a pack of ‘ Berol Washable Juniors ’ . |
| 21 | He could hurt those who cared most about him — his parents when he became a monk and Mirfield when he followed his resignation with a national television account of what was personal and private . |
| 22 | A few days later we heard a reading room receptionist telephoning the ground floor police desk to ask if she needed her umbrella to go to lunch . |
| 23 | But eight days later he developed a blood clot and died . |
| 24 | ‘ But a few days later he got a letter with a train ticket down south and two hundred pounds in notes as expenses . |
| 25 | A few days later he got a job as a sales executive with the Hartlepool marketing company SMAC . |
| 26 | A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers , which he refused to attend . |
| 27 | A few days later he had a letter from a listener asking him why he 'd told them that his gas bill was arriving the following day . |
| 28 | Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light . |
| 29 | A few days later I received a letter from Leslie 's commanding officer . |
| 30 | Nine days later I received a replacement booklet , a new Hyperion catalogue and a letter of apology . |