Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found their spaceship a few minutes later , and soon they were ready to leave the planet . |
| 2 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 3 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
| 4 | This is a , you know , how you should approach change , er , I learnt my lesson a few years ago , because I went on a course , I came back to my office , and thought the world had changed . |
| 5 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
| 6 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 7 | The catering department at the Dome Leisure Centre , Doncaster , refitted its kitchens a few years ago and , with its suppliers ' advice , chose equipment which anticipated the five degree temperature requirements . |
| 8 | Baxter and Puskas renewed their friendship a few years later in Glasgow when Real Madrid came to play a European Cup against Rangers . |
| 9 | Sonny shook his head a few times , trying to clear his fuddled senses . |
| 10 | He simply shook his head a few times and went on grinning . |
| 11 | What she did n't know , of course , was that I finished my work a few days ahead of that schedule , and was not here when you — in the guise of your sister , ’ he inserted gently , ‘ arrived . ’ |
| 12 | The boy raised his arm a few inches higher . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 14 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
| 15 | After looking out into the daylight , it took my eyes a few seconds to adjust . |
| 16 | According to Jimmy Johnstone 's very forthright biography , the ‘ horseplay ’ reached its peak a few yards from the Queen 's Hotel when the Leeds and Scotland goalkeeper David Harvey climbed on top of a beach hut and began throwing stones at his team mates . |
| 17 | Doone clicked his pen a few times , then at the bottom wrote Lewis Everard . |
| 18 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |
| 19 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 20 | He cleared his throat a few times and groaned like an aged dog in pain . |
| 21 | Our elder daughter , a budding journalist , had her birthday a few days after Easter Day , so we seemed to be stuffed with Simnel cake and birthday cake and chocolate eggs . |
| 22 | Hope and I continued our conversation a few weeks later , this time at his terraced house in Stoke Newington . |