Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time we asked Mrs Harvey a few questions . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 3 | We reached Brigade H.Q a few minutes later and drove the jeep round to the back of the house where we unloaded the canisters . |
| 4 | It took Greg Farrel a few days to realise he was being vetted , both socially and professionally . |
| 5 | I met Paul Fabian a few days later — a small , bird-like man , quite bald , dressed in a white safari suit and a Panama , and in a perpetual state of fuss about ‘ sending telegrams to London ’ . |
| 6 | Ball games were impossible : the yard had kitchen windows every few yards . |
| 7 | They left Riverboat Island a few minutes later , walked over the wide bridge in silence . |
| 8 | The Manchester City chairman Peter Swales sacked Mel Machin a few years ago for the same reason ; rapport with fans , he believed , was even more important than results . |
| 9 | But it has been tried : Birmingham City Council ran billboard advertisements a few years ago imaginatively showing what the SSD actually did , how it positively affected old people , young people , and everyone in between . |
| 10 | He said he had been aware of the consequences when he picked Mr Jackson a few weeks ago . |