Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If there 's bandits along any of these sections , ’ he said , ‘ we 'll skip 'em and you can tack on the extra mileage by walking round Kano a few times . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 3 | Overcoming a certain lethargy we sailed for Oban a few hours later . |
| 4 | An overall winner and a runner-up were chosen from the many entries and their reviews were featured in TeleClub a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 6 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 7 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 8 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
| 9 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 10 | We will return to Morvich a few pages further on . |
| 11 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 12 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 13 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |
| 14 | Components that were made in and shipped from Malaysia a few days earlier are then shipped back ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ And of course , I do feed bad about it , ’ Maxim confessed to Agnes a few minutes later . |
| 16 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
| 17 | A problem graphically illustrated in Swindon a few years |
| 18 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 19 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 20 | ‘ I have worked with Paul a few times . |
| 21 | This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds . |
| 22 | Last week Yamaguchi , 20 , added the women 's ice skating world title to the Olympic gold she won in France a few weeks earlier . |
| 23 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
| 24 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
| 25 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 26 | At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone wrote off Norwich a few weeks ago , but they beat Sheffield United in midweek while we lost , and Villa slipped up by only drawing with Tottenham . |
| 28 | But a tape , on which she recorded a conversation she had with Maurice a few weeks before her death . |
| 29 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
| 30 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |