Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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1 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
2 | When King George died in 1952. and Queen Mary died in 1961 , Edward returned to Windsor for a few days . |
3 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
4 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
5 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
6 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
7 | In January 1936 Edward went to Windsor for a few weeks . |
8 | The Duke stared at Sharpe for a few seconds , then flinched at the blood which was caked on the Rifleman 's jacket . |