Example sentences of "[vb past] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ratners caught a few eyes after being pegged to losses of £27m . |
| 32 | She caught a few words but did not hear Fru Gertlinger say , ‘ It would be best to say nothing , I think . |
| 33 | She caught a few words : marsh , explosion , death . |
| 34 | My already depressed spirits sank a few notches lower . |
| 35 | Apart from the considerations which I mentioned a few moments ago , it would indeed . |
| 36 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 37 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 38 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 39 | Martin stopped a few feet before him and stood with legs planted firmly apart , said loud enough to be heard above the music , ‘ What are you drinking ? ’ |
| 40 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 41 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 42 | Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the |
| 43 | A jeep entered the orchard and stopped a few yards away . |
| 44 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 45 | He stopped a few yards away and waited . |
| 46 | I stopped a few yards from the house . |
| 47 | Bishop stopped a few steps into the chamber . |
| 48 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 49 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 50 | Bernice staggered a few steps forward . |
| 51 | Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in . |
| 52 | This created a few problems as intense rivalry was felt between the children from the two towns . |
| 53 | The post of chief operating officer that the Foundation created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 54 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 55 | Even if the order to which the Minister referred a few minutes ago is introduced , what can the Minister tell us about the Government 's thinking on what the timetable will be ? |
| 56 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 57 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 58 | Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast . |
| 59 | The only problem occurred a few days after launch , when one of the sun sensors produced occasional false readings and shut down the satellite . |
| 60 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |