Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] a [det] [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 | Molly carried her a little way towards the house and then set her down on the pavement by the front door . |
| 5 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Well that was the question that Mr asked you a few minutes ago was n't it , er Mr ? |
| 8 | Conchis led me a little way to a deep fissure between two boulders , and there suspended a piece of white cloth on the end of a line . |
| 9 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Joe can swerve a ball , but Fred gives him a few tips on spinning it , too — without picking the seam ! |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a genius Lissa , ’ Adam told her a few minutes later . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | Dacourt joined us a few minutes later , his white moustache bristling with importance , his face a little more puce . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Would not such an arrangement bring you a little happiness ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Alan Dysart phoned me a few days ago . ’ |
| 19 | Theodora allowed him a few moments and then she said , gently , ‘ There is , is there not , one further element ? |
| 20 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 21 | And when my father gives it a little thought he 'll realise it is now September and that my time off is likely to creep into next year , which will make a much longer period owing to me . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 29 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 30 | A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town . |