Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 2 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 3 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 4 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 5 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 6 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 7 | Often the drive surface is just skimmed with tarmac which breaks up in a few weeks . |
| 8 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 9 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 10 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 11 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 12 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 13 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |
| 14 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 15 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
| 16 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 17 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 18 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 19 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 20 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 21 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 22 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 23 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 24 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 25 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 26 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 27 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 28 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 29 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 30 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |