Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On I had a half day on Wednesday |
| 2 | And he said not at all , not at all and I said well I do want the people to know that , you know we , although we tribute to of the lost lives in the two World Wars , we are now striving for peace and so I wound a few white poppies . |
| 3 | So I missed a few Playbuses . |
| 4 | ‘ Soon I thought I might as well try to get into a band and so I answered a few ads in Melody Maker and joined a few bands . |
| 5 | I had a huge living room that needed repainting and so I invited a few friends along , asked them to bring a paint-brush each and I supplied the food and drink . |
| 6 | So she put a few ideas on the back and said when you do the next one try following these ideas of organizing the different parts of the essay . |
| 7 | Obviously we had a few injuries at the start of the season , so hopefully we can go from strength to strength now . |
| 8 | Only we got a that one you know if anybody wants some wine . |
| 9 | They erm well apparently he said a few of them got in trouble he said , and heads had to roll and one of them was his ! |
| 10 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 11 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 12 | The city was big enough to hide in , to become lost in and anyway she knew a few people here ; Slater was one . |
| 13 | Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor . |
| 14 | The touching up had been well managed but elsewhere there remained a few patches of exposed metal requiring attention — just above the bumper on the front offside wing , inside the wheelarch of the same wing and around the radiator duct . |
| 15 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 16 | The police would have to be told about Zoe 's murder tomorrow , but tonight he had a few hours of peace . |
| 17 | Besides she had a little money of her own . |
| 18 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 19 | To warm myself up I did a few tried and tested jokes , ‘ You do n't have a vase ? ’ being my oldest and most standard one . |
| 20 | After the atmosphere that sparked between them whenever they spent a few hours together … ! |
| 21 | When they fished me out I made a few phone calls , |
| 22 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 23 | Well , even I got a few laughs from their replies to that one . |
| 24 | ‘ Even I gave a half cheer when I heard that , ’ declares Pamela . |
| 25 | Tentatively she tried a few and then , with something like exasperation , chose heavy bangles , a choker with ruby-red stones and matching pendant earrings . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly she passed a less than restful night , only falling asleep as the light started to penetrate the thin curtains , and when she did finally surface the sun was high in the sky and her room was like an oven . |
| 27 | Well we had a few problems did n't we ? |
| 28 | Well we did a few years ago . |
| 29 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
| 30 | Even he got a few of the good lines , none better than when a malingerer produced a succession of ‘ chits ’ excusing him one arduous duty after the other . |