Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 2 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 4 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 5 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 6 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 7 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 8 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 9 | These three are likely to feature in tomorrow 's opening match against a Stellenbosch Farmers XI , though any idea of a nice easy game should be dismissed as Yorkshire , who have been out here for a week , struggled to beat them a few days ago . |
| 10 | I did phone her a few weeks ago and she said , ooh I 'll have to see you on Friday in Mould you know get a |
| 11 | Your mum did tell me a few weeks ago |
| 12 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 13 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 14 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 16 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 17 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 18 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 19 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 20 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 21 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 22 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 23 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 24 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 25 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 26 | She told him her husband had left her a few months before for another woman . |
| 27 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 28 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 29 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 30 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |