Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 2 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Colin was a terrific help once we 'd thrashed out a few problems , ’ she said modestly . |
| 4 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 5 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 7 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 8 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 9 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 11 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 13 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 14 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 15 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 16 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |
| 17 | Well it is as mu it 's it 's worked out a few pounds cheaper . |