Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has also missed a few internationals through injury . ’ |
| 2 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 3 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |
| 4 | Bridges waited until 1918 , by which time he was poet laureate , before publishing a nearly complete edition , but he had already published a few poems individually to test the reception of the shockingly unfamiliar rhythm and language . |
| 5 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 6 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 7 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 8 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 9 | He ended up riding a few jumpers in France so its erm although he 's a good trainer now I do n't think he 's an authority and it 's poppycock er frankly . |
| 10 | Go see Fred and he 's probably got a few more pounds ready available than |
| 11 | He 's already had a few chances , but his time will come … bank on it . ’ |