Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice staggered a few steps forward . |
| 2 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 3 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 4 | Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other . |
| 5 | Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later . |
| 6 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
| 7 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 8 | After a while Bambi and Nell returned alone , and Bambi with an unexcited word of gratitude to Nell walked a few paces forward and stopped beside her son , who had done nothing to comfort or help his sister and was now sitting alone . |
| 9 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |
| 10 | Now they use tractors , some pesticides , some inorganic fertilisers , but nevertheless most of the people of Umbria voted a few weeks ago in favour of a referendum which would have severely restricted the sale , and therefore the consumption , of pesticides . |
| 11 | He said that Microsoft would like to have the dominant position in the industry that IBM had a few years ago ‘ but I do n't think that will happen ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ … and homicide Lieutenant Wilson stated a few minutes ago that the police are closing in . |
| 13 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 14 | When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche . |
| 15 | Dr Ali moved a few paces away from him . |
| 16 | Gene landed a few days later and in July Joe went out with reinforcements . |
| 17 | They were still at the window when Timothy Gedge appeared a few minutes later . |
| 18 | That 's what the bosses of master brewer Guinness did a few years ago . |
| 19 | Holomisa had a few days earlier claimed to have knowledge of a planned coup attempt against him , stating that members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) were involved in guerrilla training on South African territory near the Transkei border . |
| 20 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 21 | Their destination , Sandy discovered a few minutes later , was the Liston Hall boat house . |
| 22 | Wadi Halfa lay a few miles inland . |
| 23 | No one , to my knowledge , attempted to press charges of deception against the BBC for its reporters ' filming tactics in the series Black and White Britain screened a few years ago . |
| 24 | Ib 's Club was similar to the others she 'd visited , but more so , Gina decided a few minutes later as wearily she followed Rune into its depths : deeper , darker , more packed , the music more rawly evocative . |
| 25 | Crewkerne , the nearest post town , was the frequent destination of other walks , and on one occasion Wordsworth and Dorothy continued a few miles further to take in Hinton House , the home of Earl Poulett . |
| 26 | In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 . |
| 27 | As he shouted , Bodie darted a few yards forward , gun held two-handed in front of him , pointed firmly at the windscreen . |
| 28 | The effect , Merrill noticed a few moments later , had been carried into the interior . |
| 29 | John returned a few years later , but he was now an old man and the moving spirit seems to have been his daughter Virginia , who carried out experiments in the breeding of silkworms at Little Gidding for the benefit of the American colony . |
| 30 | Luke took a few steps forward , then flicking his wrist , sent the lash out at waist-level . |