Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman . |
| 2 | Elder Seth had known Gibbon , and apparently given the Englishman a few insights into the fragility of civilization . |
| 3 | If possible , introduce the female a few hours before the male , so she can explore and settle in in peace and quiet . |
| 4 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
| 5 | He was a very handy and determined batsman , good enough to score almost 2,000 Test runs at nearly 23 , even opening the batting a few times , and over 13,000 during his career , including 1,000 a season three times . |
| 6 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 7 | I will certainly reiterate fully the message that I delivered when I visited the north-west a few days ago . |
| 8 | He writes a letter a few years later when he remembers : |
| 9 | The explosion lifted the ship a few feet clear out of the water , smashing the superstructure against the low tunnel roof even as the hull burst open with a blaze of fire . |
| 10 | The new chain , though , caused the human a few problems . |
| 11 | I shall give the House a few examples . |
| 12 | I parked the car a few doors away from the Newton house , which looked neat enough behind a freshly painted fence , and ran the gauntlet of half a dozen youngsters who were all offering to mind my car . |
| 13 | He practised the phrase a few times and then stuffed the book back in the outside pocket of his jacket . |
| 14 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 15 | Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing . |
| 16 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 17 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 18 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 19 | Mary was standing in the middle of her room when they opened the door a few minutes later . |
| 20 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 21 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 22 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 23 | This sombre event , which was reported in the London Times , may have stimulated the construction a few years later of a strange mausoleum in Paisley . |
| 24 | Construction workers then raised the beam a few inches . |
| 25 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 26 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 27 | ( 60 ) She was heard to shut the door a few minutes later . |
| 28 | It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection . |
| 29 | Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five . |
| 30 | Some witnesses heard an engine begin coughing and spluttering and some heard an engine increase from low power to a higher power setting before they and other witnesses heard an impact a few seconds later . |