Example sentences of "[vb past] in a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
| 2 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 3 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 4 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 5 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 6 | Among these were PPB , which survived in two departments until the mid 1970s , PAR and MBO , which flourished in a few pilot studies . |
| 7 | It all happened in a few seconds . |
| 8 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 9 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 10 | Other notables this year were the backflipping roller skaters Richard Mason and Mick Beausang who even threw in a half twist until he broke his wrist . |
| 11 | She phoned for a taxi which arrived in a few minutes . |
| 12 | A leaflet near the front door told the history of Kenny 's , opened in a former ‘ crubeen shop ’ by Desmond and Maureen Kenny . |
| 13 | He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete . |
| 14 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 15 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 16 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 17 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 18 | A spillage of fuel oil at an ICI Billingham depot resulted in an all night clean-up operation . |
| 19 | She took in a few deep breaths , like a singer preparing for a song . |
| 20 | We obviously put in a few more details … |
| 21 | Busacher put in a few whirly violin runs on the piano and crescendoed unnecessarily loudly , paused too long , gasped , she joined him , and together they sailed into the finale and burst out laughing . |
| 22 | He then appeared in a few Austrian films before fleeing from the Nazis in the late 1930s . |
| 23 | During 1965 , Crawford met former dancer Gabrielle Lewis , who had trained as an actress at drama school and appeared in a few stage plays . |
| 24 | She was silent for a moment , then said in a more conciliator " tone : |
| 25 | When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified . |
| 26 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |
| 27 | The event was held recently at Methody when six girls competed in an all-play-all . |
| 28 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
| 29 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |