Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 2 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 3 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 4 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 5 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 6 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 7 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 8 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 9 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 10 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 11 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 12 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 13 | All you had to do here was to move back a few steps and you 've made it much more interesting in the foreground . |