Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna flicked ahead a few pages but could see no way of hastening her search for the information she sought . |
| 2 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 3 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 4 | Fill players like O'Grady and Hibbit , then later Bates and Yorath played quite a few games . |
| 5 | Spurs ' humiliation was compounded when Lineker mis-kicked wildly a few feet in front of goal and fell flat on his back . |
| 6 | next week , but Ruxley had quite a few seeds out and erm , Nana was gon na buy some and then she said er , she , she 'll leave it , she 'll go down to Pole Hill first cos they said they 'll be out |
| 7 | Let us take it as read that Hawkwind started quite a few trends in their time . |
| 8 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
| 9 | Grimm stumbled away a few paces . |
| 10 | He did however , have a fateful attraction for some of the ladies as he delivered the bread , for as a result the partnership of Shipsey and Sheppard lasted only a few years . |
| 11 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 12 | For seventeenth-century Somerset , J. H. Hamer has shown the influence of White Down fair near Crewkerne , and Christopher Gerrard has shown that two fairs at Taunton held only a few weeks apart had a major influence on the trading of cattle and horses in the West Country . |
| 13 | Granville emphasized just a few minutes ago , anything to do with the quality system is not a Moses job . |
| 14 | AS the Prince and Princess of Wales sat only a few feet apart in Seoul 's Presidential palace yesterday they could have been mistaken for strangers uncomfortably thrown together . |