Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Elder Seth had known Gibbon , and apparently given the Englishman a few insights into the fragility of civilization . |
2 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
3 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
4 | This sombre event , which was reported in the London Times , may have stimulated the construction a few years later of a strange mausoleum in Paisley . |
5 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
6 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
7 | She 'd hired a car a few days before , with the trip to the clinic in view . |
8 | When he eventually embarked to be rowed out to the ship , ‘ it blew up just before he reached her , it appears that , if he had left the shore a few minutes sooner , he must have perished with the rest on board ’ |
9 | The number of top lady paddlers in sprint , shalom and coaching is legion and it would be invidious of me to select names although one has honoured canoeing by being awarded an MBE a few years ago and more recently one has completed almost the ultimate in canoe expeditions by paddling round the Horn . |
10 | They had thus sighted the continent a few days later than Bellingshausen 's sighting in longitude 2°15' W. Bransfield 's manuscript chart is in the hydrographic department of the Admiralty . |
11 | Lewis had backed the car a few feet down the ramp and was about to turn towards the Cherwell Arms when he heard his master 's voice — a single hissed and incredulous blasphemy : |