Example sentences of "[vb past] it [art] few " in BNC.

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1 okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed .
2 I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz .
3 When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty .
4 While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches .
5 A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches .
6 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 .
7 Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds .
8 And we saw it a few times did n't we ?
9 No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago .
10 He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot .
11 Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ?
12 He bought it a few days ago .
13 I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’
14 They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal .
15 He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door .
16 She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite .
17 All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life .
18 He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again .
19 He gave it a few more minutes .
20 Playing the tape , I paused it every few seconds to translate .
21 He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 .
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