Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was a great pleasure meeting you a few months ago and I should like to feel our paths might cross again some time .
2 Eleanor rang him a few days later and he was remarkably cool .
3 ( Richard shaved his a few months before ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ came out . )
4 I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank .
5 I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues
6 Well that was the question that Mr asked you a few minutes ago was n't it , er Mr ?
7 I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office .
8 His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled .
9 Joe can swerve a ball , but Fred gives him a few tips on spinning it , too — without picking the seam !
10 ‘ You 're a genius Lissa , ’ Adam told her a few minutes later .
11 Sadly , manufacturers of more modern machines save themselves a few pennies and if it is ‘ user ports ’ or analogue to digital converters that are required then the customer must dig even more deeply into his or her pocket !
12 Dacourt joined us a few minutes later , his white moustache bristling with importance , his face a little more puce .
13 Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months .
14 I did n't actually visit Mum for very long but old Mrs McSporran told me all the news of the Senior Citizens and our deacon gave me a few tips about growing rhubarb .
15 ‘ Alan Dysart phoned me a few days ago . ’
16 Theodora allowed him a few moments and then she said , gently , ‘ There is , is there not , one further element ?
17 Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more .
18 She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool .
19 We 've used both Danish Blue and Lurpak in our recipes to show you a few ways of bringing a flavour of the Continent to your cooking .
20 The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle .
21 Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun .
22 Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France .
23 I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again .
24 When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty .
25 A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town .
26 ‘ I see from your notes that your doctor saw you a few days ago . ’
27 ‘ They spend their lives sewing shirts in dark attics , and their employers throw them a few pence for their pains ! ’
28 Archie joined him a few seconds later , closing the door behind him .
29 A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches .
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