Example sentences of "returned a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after he had simmered down and contemplated his parlous financial situation , he returned a few hours later to accept Gilroy 's offer . |
| 2 | He returned a few moments later with the dish , and the little hedgehog could hardly believe her eyes : the gigantic dish was overflowing with dog food . |
| 3 | One night , he recalls , he sat alone in the Commons library when David Owen passed by and returned a few moments later with David Marquand . |
| 4 | Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other . |
| 5 | She disappeared back into the kitchen and returned a few minutes later carrying a very dirty and dusty bottle of wine . |
| 6 | He disappeared into the shelves and returned a few minutes later , holding a book . |
| 7 | She returned a few minutes later with an air of triumph , waving a folded map . |
| 8 | He returned a few minutes later — this time wearing his belt . |
| 9 | When she returned a few minutes later , the carrycot and child had gone . |
| 10 | I returned a few minutes later to find the cube assembled . |
| 11 | Dieter went off and returned a few minutes later with the information that Marie-Claire never came in on a Wednesday because her children 's school was closed on that day . |
| 12 | He returned a few minutes later with the news that a room was available . |
| 13 | She hurried off and returned a few minutes later with a tiny white gown . |
| 14 | Getting lazily to his feet , he went out , and returned a few minutes later to announce , ‘ There 's a snack being laid out for you in the dining-room . |
| 15 | She returned a few minutes later with an explanation that medicine was being prepared for me . |
| 16 | He went indoors and returned a few minutes later with the shoe box . |
| 17 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 18 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 19 | Facet augmentation returned a few seconds later . |
| 20 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 21 | He returned a few days later to meet the proprietors and Bernard , recognizing there was a limit to their own international expansion at this stage , and ever keen to find outlets for the masses of cloth being printed , immediately proposed to Trevaskis that they worked together , not in competition . |
| 22 | He returned a few days later a broken man . |
| 23 | John returned a few years later , but he was now an old man and the moving spirit seems to have been his daughter Virginia , who carried out experiments in the breeding of silkworms at Little Gidding for the benefit of the American colony . |