Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 2 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 3 | It did take a few minutes to get used to the cutting action of steadying the saw on it shoe , starting the motor , then gradually starting the cut by pivoting down with the blade , but it was a knack soon acquired . |
| 4 | I found out how well after a serious filter failure while away , but it did take a few days for the lethargic specimen to return to full health . |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , it pays to know a few things about a bloke you 're going to be sharing with , especially when that bloke 's topped three other geezers . ’ |
| 6 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 7 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 8 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 9 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 10 | Pour it into a pewter container and before it solidifies embed a few matches into the mixture |
| 11 | there are bound to be occasions and er it 's happened a few occasions during my political life , where you do er find agreement with people of of various parties . |