Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’
2 Inspired by the arrival of The Beatles to play the guitar , he bought a cheap Harmony electric and a Kalamazoo amp and dabbled for a few years before joining a high school covers band , playing soul , rock and a good deal of Hendrix .
3 We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven .
4 In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) .
5 Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years .
6 He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me .
7 She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’
8 Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet .
9 Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade .
10 In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ?
11 As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet .
12 It rained for a few days after that shake of early March .
13 They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes .
14 Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled .
15 My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train .
16 There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin .
17 The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other .
18 All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other .
19 They walked for a few minutes in silence .
20 When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper .
21 In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 .
22 He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete .
23 Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi .
24 His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar .
25 Durbeyfield walked on a few steps in a dream , then sat down with his basket .
26 In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country .
27 It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie .
28 She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were .
29 It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’
30 Mr Barker said he had n't insisted that the customer should produce a banker 's card because she lived within a few doors of the shop .
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