Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
2 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
3 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
4 | The sixth child was taken captive but returned to friends a few years later . |
5 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
6 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
7 | We will return to Morvich a few pages further on . |
8 | Some hours of searching brought to light a few finds , these being small targets but nevertheless interesting ones . |
9 | ‘ And of course , I do feed bad about it , ’ Maxim confessed to Agnes a few minutes later . |
10 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
11 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
12 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
13 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
14 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |
15 | A survey of usage also brings to light a few cases of a rare use — the to infinitive denoting an action after make . |
16 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
17 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
18 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
19 | Tareq Aziz travelled to Moscow a few days later , perhaps with the aim of clearing the air where he encountered the Soviet leader Gorbachev . |
20 | He had already invited his new young friend to travel to Stowey a few weeks later , and when they parted after six miles , Hazlitt was possessed by a single thought : ‘ I was to visit Coleridge in the spring . ’ |