Example sentences of "[vb past] a few [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arbuckle directed a few comedy shorts as William Goodrich , was booed when he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces , and began to drink heavily . |
| 2 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 3 | Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ? |
| 4 | There was also a touch of home — one of the Highlanders produced a few newspaper cuttings from the British Press . |
| 5 | We also achieved a few column inches in the Focus paper and brought the NCT to the attention of many people who had never heard of us before . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited my hon. Friend 's constituency and delivered a few home truths to the city council about its housing policy failures . |
| 7 | It was an extraordinary sight to see a seventeenth-century church perched on steel-runners and pulled a few score metres from its original place . |
| 8 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |