Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [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 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 6 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tall and strong , with very broad shoulders , he would go on to claim 202 victims at 25 from his 47 Tests , of which 50 came in a dozen games against England . |
| 12 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 13 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the 1930s accommodation consisted of a thousand beds in twelve hotels . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train . |
| 18 | There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin . |
| 19 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |
| 20 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 21 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 22 | And he paid over a thousand pounds for it . |
| 23 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In August 1828 , after a small exchange of fire , Monteiro landed with a thousand troops under Colonel José António de Azevedo Lemos . |
| 26 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 27 | He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete . |
| 28 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 29 | Durbeyfield walked on a few steps in a dream , then sat down with his basket . |
| 30 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |