Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 2 | And she did n't really tell me , it was just that I guessed , I 'd seen them quite a few times , mooning about , and I asked her if she was going to marry him . |
| 3 | Well you 've heard her on phone , she 's phoned you quite a few times . |
| 4 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |
| 5 | Juliet felt quite pleased about this ; the girl was her own age , twenty , and , although she 'd seen her only a few times , she felt drawn to her cheerful , intelligent personality . |
| 6 | other guy , you know , he does it in garages , he 's done it quite a few times before on cars he 's had himself , so |
| 7 | If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family . |
| 8 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
| 9 | Yes , fifty given it exactly the same way . |
| 10 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |