Example sentences of "[pron] were a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Around its base , palm-trees were growing and there were a few houses built of clay . |
| 32 | There were a few houses here and there , some clearly centuries old , their stones weathered to a cream , and pale sand , dark shutters closed against the power of the south-western sun . |
| 33 | I 've never actually spoken out , other than last year when there were a few incidents with girls where I sort of said well you get what you deserve , you know , if you 're going to operate such a sort of sexist situation , then you 're going to get very difficult for girls because they 've no positive images whatsoever , and I was actually … |
| 34 | So this statement could be him trying to play down the incident … remember there were a few incidents where cuntona was reported to have stormed off to france . |
| 35 | There were a few discrepancies in the results . |
| 36 | Indeed he himself added a footnote to the paragraph quoted above : ‘ I was informed , however , that there were a few cockatoos at one spot on the west of Bali , showing that the intermingling of the productions of these islands is now going on … ’ |
| 37 | There were a few accidents involving aircraft at Coningsby and one incident occurred shortly after the Washington entered service . |
| 38 | There were a few scares at the death , nothing happened , just they got their first corner after about 90 mins … and after last year … however nothing came of it ( or their second and last corner 3 mins into injury time ) , except one header which Lukic watched wide . |
| 39 | A gimcrack modern desk table ( ‘ Good enough for him ’ ) had been placed there , and there were a few shelves , stocked with the works of Walter Machin , cheap editions of Lawrence , Walter Greenwood , Orwell , Sillitoe and others , and copies of periodicals which had contributed to the revival of interest in Machin 's books . |
| 40 | There were a few exercises they forbade , and would never let the Prince pilot supersonic Buccaneers or the Sea King anti-submarine helicopters ; but he did qualify for membership of the exclusive Ten Ton Club , by flying at more than 1,000 m.p.h. in a phantom scrambled from Leuchars in Fife , which he had taken over Balmoral before going supersonic off the coast of Scotland . |
| 41 | There were a few leaves left on the straggly garden bushes , hanging all crumpled and lifeless . |
| 42 | If you go back to the ‘ fifties and ‘ sixties , there were a few killers around like this one . |
| 43 | If we were lucky , there were a few minutes in the evening when the wind dropped , the dust storm subsided , and we could brave the mosquitoes and wash the corrosive dust from our bodies . |
| 44 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 45 | There were a few moments silence before they turned their backs to the church and , still holding hands , sang : |
| 46 | There were a few moments ' stalemate , then more petrol was thrown , this time into the warehouse , and two men with a bren gun were left to cover the building as Peter Young led his men on . |
| 47 | True , there were a few pockets of stubborn resistance , where the Reiksguard refused to fall back in the face of certain defeat or where the thunder of Imperial arquebuses had shattered the Bretonnian infantry . |
| 48 | I assumed there were a few rounds left in the magazine . |
| 49 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 50 | There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind . |
| 51 | There were a few clubs at the lower end of the street , but it was mostly owned by monolithic movie companies . |
| 52 | There were a few tins in one of the cupboards , a glass jar of rice , and some jars of preserves , but no vegetables , and no perishable foods . |
| 53 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 54 | She peered closely at her face ; there were a few lines about the mouth and eyes but at forty-seven that was only to be expected . |
| 55 | ‘ Technically , there were a few bits wrong with the swing that kept holding me back , ’ he said . |
| 56 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |
| 57 | There were a few stunners , true , but they always moved out after their first year whilst the ungainly ones became permanent fixtures . |
| 58 | THERE were a few looks of mock horror as I walked through the door . |
| 59 | There were a few females who were hostile , but most liked her . |
| 60 | By the mid Triassic there were a few groups of large herbivore reptiles , called rhynchosaurs , who were distant relatives of the lizards . |