Example sentences of "[vb past] a few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him telling me how in those days , things being more primitive , they often used a few cycle lamps arranged in an inverted L-shape with the crossbar at the upwind end . ’ |
| 2 | Arbuckle directed a few comedy shorts as William Goodrich , was booed when he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces , and began to drink heavily . |
| 3 | Jack played a few wartime matches in the London Combination for Palace at their new home at The Nest and then signed professional forms for the club when he left the Forces . |
| 4 | Her last evening — last Saturday — I suggested she asked a few hospital colleagues in for pasta , which she did . |
| 5 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 6 | When they fished me out I made a few phone calls , |
| 7 | Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ? |
| 8 | There was also a touch of home — one of the Highlanders produced a few newspaper cuttings from the British Press . |
| 9 | We stopped at one of his regular suppliers and cadged a few sea urchins , then the knife to eat them with . |
| 10 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 11 | We also achieved a few column inches in the Focus paper and brought the NCT to the attention of many people who had never heard of us before . |
| 12 | ‘ Last year we arranged a few entertainment evenings over at one of our sister Homes . |
| 13 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 14 | And that included a few classroom crushes . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited my hon. Friend 's constituency and delivered a few home truths to the city council about its housing policy failures . |
| 16 | It was an extraordinary sight to see a seventeenth-century church perched on steel-runners and pulled a few score metres from its original place . |
| 17 | We 'd go out on the town , hit a few cocktail parties , go dancing , and I 'd drop a few hundred quid on a weekend . ’ |
| 18 | Deep in my stomach the whirling pits started a few trial revolutions and it was n't down to the meat pie I 'd had . |
| 19 | The launch day saw a few teething problems . |
| 20 | and she said David said he saw a few snow flakes . |
| 21 | I saw a few sort of puzzled looks when |
| 22 | Collecting up a knapsack which contained a few beach things , Liza and Celia went to the bottom of the garden and began their descent , one which was not quite as successfully negotiated as when Edna was in charge . |
| 23 | Alcoholism is a social thing , not a homelessness thing — I mean , I knew a few university lecturers who were alcoholics , but they all had homes to go to — or still had , last time they ever spoke to me . ’ |
| 24 | Bewildered and cast down as she was , Nicandra managed a few skipping steps — this jolly movement her evidence that she was not in a state of unattractive sulks . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's fine , ’ she said , but as soon as she took a few practice steps forward , the edges of the bale , on either side of the binding rope . |
| 26 | She also did a few hand knitted garments herself . |
| 27 | She twirled them like a majorette , and did a few ninja moves . |
| 28 | ‘ Still , it 's about time he learned a few home truths , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 29 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |
| 30 | We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands . |