Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 2 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 3 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 4 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 5 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 6 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 7 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 8 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 9 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 10 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 11 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 12 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 13 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 14 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 15 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 16 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 17 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 18 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 19 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 20 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 21 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 22 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 23 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 24 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 25 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 26 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
| 27 | No answer , then Spencer passed out for a few seconds , only to wake to the pungent smell of burning and the sharp realisation that he must now get out of the thing . |
| 28 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 29 | A second night jar started up at a few yards distant . |
| 30 | ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job . |