Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amidst the unhilarious mayhem , a bespectacled and wide-eyed Dustin managed to time a few gags well , but became swamped by the strained and desperate elements of the ridiculous plot . |
| 2 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 3 | At the end of the meal , Dominic came to have a few words with me . |
| 4 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 6 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 7 | Her father 's eldest sister , the aunt who now had the villa near Ravello where Sophia hoped to spend a few days after the visit to Rome , was in some ways very much like an older version of Penelope . |
| 8 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 9 | Anne managed to get a few days off work during his ten-day leave , and as he had few relatives to visit , they were able to spend blissful hours alone . |
| 10 | After the presentation of the well-deserved awards by the Sunday Times ' editor Andrew Neil , TEC director Les Bell rose to say a few words . |
| 11 | The overdrive was fined in June 1986 and the leak began to show a few weeks later on a routine service . |