Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a very handy and determined batsman , good enough to score almost 2,000 Test runs at nearly 23 , even opening the batting a few times , and over 13,000 during his career , including 1,000 a season three times . |
| 2 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 3 | Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing . |
| 4 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 5 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 6 | It was a fine effort to give Ports the lead but they 'll be disappointed at conceding an equaliser a few minutes later . |