Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 2 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 3 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 4 | It was a lucid dream , with him walking down infinite identical corridors , all painted the same pale blue , all leading to endless identical doors . |
| 5 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |
| 6 | It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many . |
| 7 | So you 've obviously dropped a few marks on that . |
| 8 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 9 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 10 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 11 | He said he would like a plant or two of Gale with spleenwort leaves ( i.e. Comptonia peregriaa var. aspleniifolia ) and dried specimens of the male and female plants , having only seen the former . |
| 12 | Having only done a few short walks before in true Water & Ventilation style he decided to ‘ test the water ’ first by walking the Ridgeway in Wiltshire , 85 miles and five days later he completed it . |
| 13 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 14 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 15 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 16 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 17 | You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’ |
| 18 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
| 19 | Well I have only got a few courts , |
| 20 | They , they 've suddenly had a few outbreaks of polio have n't they ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 23 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 24 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 25 | Oh I 've only had a few . |
| 26 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 27 | Thus several students who have all got the same grade may have tackled quite different problems and in quite different ways . |
| 28 | We 'd all had a few drinks . |
| 29 | Arthur had obviously had the same idea . |
| 30 | This view has been more manifest in the United States than in this country , although we have not entirely escaped the same phenomenon . |