Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was involved a few years ago in the in the Lance , the rescue er That the lance went ashore on Hoy and er the helicopter there took the casualties of the Lance and dropped |
| 2 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 3 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 4 | you were asked a few questions about the contingency fund , was setting up the contingency fund , had it got any connection at all with the Daily Telegraph article ? |
| 5 | I heard that she was widowed a few days before the baby was born . |
| 6 | She was paid a few shillings to cover funerals , weddings and jumble sales at weekends . |
| 7 | Wellington looked to an aide who was seated a few places down the table . |
| 8 | Er , Jim , Birmingham , West er , Midlands er , supporting er , the sectionalization of the union because erm , we were told a few months ago it was passed for nineteen ninety one . |
| 9 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 10 | They were married a few months later . |
| 11 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 12 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 13 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 14 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 15 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
| 16 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 17 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 18 | He rapped three times on the door of Room 144 , it was opened a few inches . |
| 19 | He was killed a few months later and she died soon after her son was born . |
| 20 | He was ambushed a few hours later and shot dead . |
| 21 | Anyway , he was gone a few minutes , and he came back smelling — you know . |
| 22 | He was released a few hours later . |
| 23 | He was bought a few drinks by workmates then took off on his own , round various bars , to finish the job properly . |
| 24 | He was recaptured a few days later in Liverpool in an operation involving more than 60 police officers and a helicopter . |