Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only got a few minutes did n't you ? |
| 2 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 3 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
| 4 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 5 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 6 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |
| 7 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 8 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 9 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 10 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He only said a few words ’ Maxim said slowly trying to remember . |
| 12 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 13 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends . |
| 15 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 16 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 17 | ‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me . |
| 18 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |
| 19 | Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) . |
| 20 | So she says give us your twenty quid , cos she only had a few bits did n't she ? |
| 21 | He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went . |
| 22 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 23 | We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands . |
| 24 | I only had a few weeks . |
| 25 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 26 | Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that . |
| 27 | His breathing had become rather quick and heavy , and the car suddenly swerved a few feet , as if he was no longer paying any attention to the road ahead . |
| 28 | And I already took a half day off flexi leave . |
| 29 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 30 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |