Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb past] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She had not thought to have Ariel set her whole spine on a splint , so when , after three months , Sycorax raised herself and found her weak legs and took a few steps , her whole weight slung against Ariel on one side and Jack Elsey on the other , she was bent like a hoop and could only shuffle forward , raising her head , like a turtle poking out of its shell , to address anyone who was not actually on the floor below her . |
2 | He stood up and put his hands in his pockets and took a few turns about the room . |
3 | The hand rampaged through various pockets and emerged a few seconds later with a rectangle of paper torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
4 | Suddenly restless , she rose to her feet and walked a few steps away from him , resting her elbows on the garden gate as she looked far away into the empty distance . |
5 | He disappeared into the shelves and returned a few minutes later , holding a book . |
6 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
7 | ‘ We had received a number of complaints about bouncing cheques and made a few inquiries into the businessmen and their activities . |
8 | I 'm afraid I 've lost a few friends and challenged a few others . |
9 | Cast on , transfer edge stitches and knit a few rows . |
10 | So , after a little research in Bangkok , I wrote a few letters and made a few calls and found a Brother distributer . |
11 | , writes : A FRIEND maintains that about 10 years ago he boarded a train in London , played cards and had a few drinks and did n't leave the train until he reached Paris . |
12 | I waved away his solicitations and took a few mouthfuls of air followed by some tea . |