Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 2 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 3 | He picked her up and threw her a few metres down the corridor . |
| 4 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 5 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 6 | There do exist two or three letters from Christabel to Hearst — she even sent him a few poems in one , which he kept , fortunately for us . |
| 7 | Crossing to the bed , she put a hand behind Lucien 's head , raised it , and offered him a few sips of water from a rough ceramic bowl . |
| 8 | I did n't actually visit Mum for very long but old Mrs McSporran told me all the news of the Senior Citizens and our deacon gave me a few tips about growing rhubarb . |
| 9 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 10 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 11 | shepherds pie yesterday and I did them a few chips with it as well . |
| 12 | I gave her a few days off when William went away . |
| 13 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
| 14 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 15 | And erm we er I gave him a few tips on what to revise on |
| 16 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
| 17 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |