Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] early " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was the first real chance of a score a couple of minutes earlier , Neil Smith attempting a drop goal . |
| 5 | So Katie Jane from Daisy Chainsaw has plasters on her newly-shaven head from where she collided with Crispin Gray 's guitar a couple of nights earlier . |
| 6 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 7 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 8 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 9 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 10 | He had celebrated his birthday a couple of weeks earlier with balloons and four candles on an iced cake , and he was hoping the festivities might be going on indefinitely . |
| 11 | My last meeting with Ashe before he went public on the news , knowing that an American newspaper was about to do so anyway , was during the Lipton tournament in Key Biscayne a couple of weeks earlier . |
| 12 | Reading Rivers and Smith a couple of years earlier , Eliot had appreciated this to the full , as his relating contemporary life to Melanesian death in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ shows . |