Example sentences of "[pron] only [vb past] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up .
2	‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me .
3	The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title .
4	I only had a few weeks .
5	Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that .
6	You only got a few minutes did n't you ?
7	So she says give us your twenty quid , cos she only had a few bits did n't she ?
8	After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one .
9	‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said .
10	But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’
11	Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages .
12	‘ He only said a few words ’ Maxim said slowly trying to remember .
13	He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward .
14	He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went .
15	Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew .

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