Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a few stickers falling off , it worked reasonably well . |
| 2 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |
| 3 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 4 | When Nancy was out in the street again , she sat down on a door-step , and for a few minutes seemed unable to move . |
| 5 | He slid his hands into the sleeves , and lifted it to turn the back to the light , and for a few minutes stood studying it closely . |
| 6 | In the morning Riven lay half awake , listening to the sound of the water close at hand , and for a few moments thought it was a quiet tide outside the bothy . |
| 7 | Vic swings on to the motorway , going north-west , and for a few miles gives the Jaguar its head , moving smoothly up the outside lane at 90 , keeping a watchful eye on the rear-view mirror , though the police rarely bother you in the rush hour , they are as eager as anyone to keep the traffic flowing . |
| 8 | Exhibitions and trade shows work can be great fun — there is a chance to meet many new faces , stay in good hotels , have jolly meals with new-found colleagues and for a few days live in a different and , almost always , pleasant if busy world . |
| 9 | So far , he had not met any strange animals , terrifying monsters or lost pupils trying to find their way out , and after a few journeys began to feel quite safe as he wandered through the never-ending jungle of passageways . |
| 10 | He darted down the passage after Twoflower , and after a few moments came to a halt with a groan . |
| 11 | Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin . |
| 12 | Mr Wopsle went in to discover what was happening , and after a few minutes rushed out , calling , ‘ Something wrong up at the forge , Pip ! |
| 13 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 14 | He turned and after a few seconds said : |
| 15 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 16 | Jeff , who drove a lead car , explained : ‘ We knew there was a building site there and after a few dollars had changed hands the construction workers used one of their cranes to transfer the three-and-a-halfton generator . ’ |
| 17 | I think decision has to be made after er consideration and and of a few people putting heads together . |
| 18 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 19 | Bill and Audrey Clark bought a house for £50,000 , and within a few months discovered that most of the window frames were infested with wet rot and required replacing . |
| 20 | I had left the technical college in February 1980 and within a few weeks had landed an audio typist 's job with a trendy voluntary housing organization . |
| 21 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 22 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 23 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 24 | ‘ Debauched little madam , what am I going to do with you ? ’ he teased , and in a few minutes had shown her very definitely what possibilities he had in mind . |
| 25 | A lovely path goes up alongside amongst trees and in a few minutes leads to the open corrie and an impressive mountain scene : directly ahead is Beinn Dearg , the high mass on the left is Beinn Alligin and on the right is the last satellite of the Liathach range . |
| 26 | Let the Staff College student consider how Harris was able to conjure from his original strength of 374 front line aircraft , and in a few months have some 1,047 aircraft set course for Koln in order to devastate 600 acres of the city ( plus the admirals and generals in Whitehall ) . |
| 27 | A letter from G. Espin to Councillor Fraser re the waste of public money in erecting a new wire fence on the footpath between Baberton Mains Estate and Juniper Green and in a few days ripping it out and replacing it with a chestnut type wooden fence . |
| 28 | Mr Singh and i drove through the wide streets of New Delhi , empty now but for a few pilgrims washing under the public pumps near the shrine of Nizamuddin . |
| 29 | Margo went from strength to strength , with bigger and better parts , but after a few years turned to acting and much later married an Australian singer/actor , Rod McLennon , and went to live in Melbourne . |
| 30 | The Electricity Boards ' defence ( that the offers reflected their costs because small consumers were expensive to supply ) was plausible in principle , but in a few Boards collapsed under more careful probing , and allegations of unfair competition continued to flow both ways between the industries . |