Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've changed your body , and I tried to rewire a few of your neurons , but I 've left you alone where it counts . ’ |
| 2 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 3 | Lorne tried chanting a few limericks over and over , but we never saw the eels again , though we dived there often . |
| 4 | I struggled with a makeshift skipping rope and tried to do a few more press-ups each day ; it was not much fun . |
| 5 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 6 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 7 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 8 | Robert patted his hair down and tried to formulate a few opening remarks . |
| 9 | After the presentation of the well-deserved awards by the Sunday Times ' editor Andrew Neil , TEC director Les Bell rose to say a few words . |
| 10 | He bent to throw a few pieces of turf on the fire and was reminded that the locals called them sods of turf . |
| 11 | When he tried to construct a few sentences in his mind — excusing himself — excusing Rose — they did n't sound lucid . |
| 12 | The oldest woman in the refuge had worked as a railway clerk , in a sausage factory , a pop factory and in a factory making bingo boards until she stopped working a few years earlier and was put on invalidity benefit . |
| 13 | ‘ I stopped working a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 15 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 16 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 17 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 18 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 19 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 20 | I think he 'd done a few Compact 's up to then , but he was marvellous . |
| 21 | Frankly , she looked as if she 'd got a few bundles of twelve-page letters stuffed up her woolly even now . |
| 22 | I 'm sure he 'd got a few more bits of paper on his desk than what shall we do about P E Ps ? |
| 23 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 24 | And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been savaged by love , ’ she would declaim , when she 'd had a few . |
| 26 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 27 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 28 | Dad was a jolly chap sober , or could be , but when he 'd had a few he thought himself a bit of a lady-killer . |
| 29 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 30 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |