Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 2 | She had not thought to have Ariel set her whole spine on a splint , so when , after three months , Sycorax raised herself and found her weak legs and took a few steps , her whole weight slung against Ariel on one side and Jack Elsey on the other , she was bent like a hoop and could only shuffle forward , raising her head , like a turtle poking out of its shell , to address anyone who was not actually on the floor below her . |
| 3 | The coroner gently pushed the keeper out before him , took , out his purse and clinked a few coins into his hand . |
| 4 | After spending all morning talking to clients on the telephone , in place of lunch I nipped up to the golf club and played a few holes with one of the assistants . |
| 5 | How would St Jerome shape up after he 'd caught a Dinky toy in the mouth and had a few handfuls of fettucine thrust into his armpit ? |
| 6 | Rincewind smiled politely at the stranger and tried a few words of Chimeran . |
| 7 | Cast on for a test piece and knit a few rows ending with the carriage at the right . |
| 8 | Turning , he leaned against a rock and scribbled a few sentences — with the air of a man signing his own death warrant , I thought . |
| 9 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
| 10 | Or have you ever needed a break from the pressures of work and paid a few pounds more to escape the holiday crowds ? |
| 11 | He stood up and put his hands in his pockets and took a few turns about the room . |
| 12 | The hand rampaged through various pockets and emerged a few seconds later with a rectangle of paper torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
| 13 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
| 14 | McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them . |
| 15 | Suddenly restless , she rose to her feet and walked a few steps away from him , resting her elbows on the garden gate as she looked far away into the empty distance . |
| 16 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 17 | One day we were poking around in some sodden ashes by the rear exit and found a few slivers of celluloid with images on them . |
| 18 | He disappeared into the shelves and returned a few minutes later , holding a book . |
| 19 | He took up a pen and drew a few lines on a notepad — meaningless lines that irritated her as she watched . |
| 20 | She disappeared back into the kitchen and returned a few minutes later carrying a very dirty and dusty bottle of wine . |
| 21 | At last both the sous and the stories ran out so I sold the cloak and gathered a few objects : bones , shards of pottery and the occasional rag . |
| 22 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 23 | And then Otto went indoors to the piano and played a few bars of Debussy to illustrate a musical idea . |
| 24 | We cranked the motor for added security and put a few wraps in the roller reefing genoa to make it easier to control . |
| 25 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 26 | I lost my footing at one point and collected a few bruises . |
| 27 | The jeep-driver went into the farmhouse and emerged a few seconds later with the burly man . |
| 28 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 29 | Later , as night crept over the Rorim , they met in Riven 's room and shared a few pitchers of ale . |
| 30 | She had a quick look round the room and shoved a few things out of sight in the glory-hole cupboard . |