Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
2 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
3 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
4 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
5 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
6 | ‘ I 'm just in for a few tests , ’ he said . |
7 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
8 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
9 | And the animals were certainly in for a few surprises as our team of ten raced by wearing bright yellow ‘ Wimpey Worldwide ’ T-shirts and hard hats . |