Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 2 | But we also remember how that was n't sustained , and the cynical political fix of the Tories a few months later , that for the moment has coped with the government 's political crisis , and temporarily has bought a little time for a few pits . |
| 3 | It will also have learned a few lessons in how not to go about setting up a business . |
| 4 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
| 5 | You must surely have observed a few things about Fräulein Müller . ’ |
| 6 | It was a time of great personal sadness ; his first wife had died in 1927 ; he had married Katherine Harrower-Peters the following year , but she too had died a few months later in an influenza epidemic . |