Example sentences of "[vb past] a few [noun pl] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I entered a few eisteddfods and competitions and did the exams but that was as far as I went . |
| 2 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
| 3 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 4 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 5 | She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy . |
| 6 | The differences in treatment of the authors was very apparent when we found that some selected a few headings and sub-headings and others sub-divided the subject much more . |
| 7 | He hit a few three-irons and three-woods and that was it . |
| 8 | The Port Ellen Sacred Harmony Class sang a few anthems and Miss Shaw played the piano . |
| 9 | I did a few odds and ends in the garden on Saturday , played a round of golf on Sunday morning . |
| 10 | We did a few vocals and overdubs and eventually the album was mixed bar one track , which he did somewhere else . |
| 11 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |
| 12 | He 's they 've opened an account with us and had a few bits and baps off us , so |
| 13 | Erm , he worked , he was their sort of erm they had a few clubs and pubs in this area at the time and er |
| 14 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 15 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 16 | We sat there and had two or three or four and it got to 11 o'clock and we had a few sandwiches and things like that , and we just sat there talking . |
| 17 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |
| 18 | Having a married sister in Cape Town , he sailed for South Africa in 1914 , where he painted some pictures , gave a series of lectures on modern art , and published a few articles and poems . |