Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dacourt joined us a few minutes later , his white moustache bristling with importance , his face a little more puce . |
| 32 | ‘ I had time in the wilderness when my form was not good and that taught me a few lessons . |
| 33 | A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town . |
| 34 | Behaving like an infatuated teenager , just because he 's taken me out , and kissed me a few times ? |
| 35 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
| 36 | Balham-born Akram , who is studying for his A-levels , got the stage bug at the age of three when his mother taught him a few classical Indian dance steps . |
| 37 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 38 | So I was not surprised when he rang me a few weeks later to say that Dorothy was in hospital . |
| 39 | Like I 've him at , watched him a few times , she goes , get off he says , what |
| 40 | Eleanor rang him a few days later and he was remarkably cool . |
| 41 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 42 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |
| 43 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 44 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 45 | It took me a few months to realise that my life was changed completely . |
| 46 | It took me a few minutes to get the hang of things when I put the Legend through an amp . |
| 47 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 48 | It took me a few minutes to feel brave enough to try her again . |
| 49 | It took them a few moments to find it . |
| 50 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 51 | ‘ I see from your notes that your doctor saw you a few days ago . ’ |
| 52 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 53 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 54 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 55 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 56 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 57 | It took her a few minutes to realise what it was . |
| 58 | There do exist two or three letters from Christabel to Hearst — she even sent him a few poems in one , which he kept , fortunately for us . |
| 59 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
| 60 | I saw him a few times more , but never alone , I wrote him two letters when I was in Spain , and he sent a postcard back . |