Example sentences of "[vb past] a few [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took up a pen and drew a few lines on a notepad — meaningless lines that irritated her as she watched . |
| 2 | Her death rated a few lines in the papers , but the full significance of her passing went unreported . |
| 3 | In the dream , but not in memory , a mist rose a few feet above the surface of the water like a veil over a familiar face . |
| 4 | I stopped a few yards from the house . |
| 5 | Bishop stopped a few steps into the chamber . |
| 6 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 7 | Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast . |
| 8 | He scribbled a few lines on a scrap sheet to get the hang of Sampson 's cramped style , and then he started to fill in the form . |
| 9 | He camped a few miles outside the town and there remained , determined to outface Ras Tafari , whom he discounted as astute but weak . |
| 10 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 11 | It is true that the National Deaf Club attracted a few members from the provinces , but by and large , its membership has been confined mostly to London and its environs . |
| 12 | Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes . |
| 13 | But Yorkshire 's lead by then was 53 with the final 20 overs approaching and Craig White and Darren Gough carefully batted on until rain came a few minutes before the close . |
| 14 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |
| 15 | From a position , parked a few yards down the road from the Stones ' house , Bodie watched as Anne Hanvey finally delivered Nick to the house . |
| 16 | At the reception desk , he murmured a few words to the elaborately uniformed commissionaire and was shown respectfully towards the lift . |
| 17 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
| 18 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 19 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |
| 20 | The radical Mamba darabiner turned a few eyes on the DMM stand . |
| 21 | threw a few things in an old army surplus |
| 22 | Kalchu stood up , holding the bowl of rice and blood , and threw a few grains into the air in four directions . |
| 23 | It showed a few shots of the God-Kings residence , called the Divine Sanctum , which looked from the outside as big as some planetoids and not much lovelier . |
| 24 | Vitor enquired , as they joined a few stragglers beside the buffet table . |
| 25 | " Oh , lay off , " said Clelia , and pulled away from him , and skipped a few steps on the green short grass , and then did rather a professional cartwheel . |
| 26 | There was a bar at the entrance where one paid a few marks for a drink , and behind a curtain an auditorium of perhaps twenty or thirty comfortable seats . |
| 27 | I galloped a few times round the yard after him , then had another go . |
| 28 | The Captain opened a few drawers in the dressing-table . |
| 29 | He opened a few drawers in the dresser until he saw what he 'd expected to find — half a dozen packets of tights . |
| 30 | We passed a few minutes in the exchanges that usually pass for conversation between people who know each other slightly and have no real business connection . |