Example sentences of "[pers pn] only [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 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 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 7 | I only add a few words of my own out of deference to the contrary view expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Lowry , and to consider the cases on thefts from companies to which we were referred in the course of argument . |
| 8 | You only got a few minutes did n't you ? |
| 9 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 10 | Usually , if the speed is low , you only have a few seconds either to lower the nose or to reduce the amount of airbrake to avoid a bad landing . |
| 11 | So she says give us your twenty quid , cos she only had a few bits did n't she ? |
| 12 | She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 16 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 17 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 18 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 19 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 20 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 21 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 22 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 23 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 24 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 25 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 26 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |
| 27 | ‘ He only said a few words ’ Maxim said slowly trying to remember . |
| 28 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |