Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 2 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 3 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 4 | Wooderson continued running for a few years , winning the European 5,000 metres and stretching his span of achievement from world record breaker at half-mile to national cross-country champion over nine miles in 1949 . |
| 5 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 6 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Death-beds are not easily mistaken and Mrs Hellyer had sat beside a few . |
| 8 | Windsor Davies has appeared in a few but he 's er not one of the regular ones . |
| 9 | Jenny had gone without a few things in her youth and was determined that their boy would lack nothing . |
| 10 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 11 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |