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

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1 If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga .
2 While Pamella flung a few things in a suitcase and scrambled off to Bali tout de suite , Fleet Street fanned out to play cherchez la femme .
3 Corbett whispered a few words and the friar looked up sharply and nodded .
4 At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie .
5 Certainly not as well as her books sold a few years ago .
6 It was an accident of course but old Colonel Saunchie got a few pellets in him .
7 The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room .
8 Edward made a few concessions .
9 There was also a touch of home — one of the Highlanders produced a few newspaper cuttings from the British Press .
10 Bernice staggered a few steps forward .
11 Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement .
12 The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished .
13 Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast .
14 Two howitzer shells exploded a few paces from his horse , both blasts beginning small fires among the rye .
15 It is true that the National Deaf Club attracted a few members from the provinces , but by and large , its membership has been confined mostly to London and its environs .
16 I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet .
17 Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other .
18 Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later .
19 They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 .
20 The album pulled a few Manhattan fads ( salsa , jazz , R&B ) into snappy pop figures and also revealed a newly flexible capacity in Jackson 's voice ; previously hard-edged and impatient , it could now sit comfortably on the grand slopes of a ballad like ‘ Breaking Us In Two ’ , a Top 20 hit in America .
21 His eyes went a few degrees cooler .
22 There has been an encouraging response since the club advertised a few days ago .
23 Bernice took a few moments break from her search to reach up and snap it off .
24 Marie took a few steps towards him .
25 No less devotion was brought to four songs by Joseph Marx , and although the rather overheated style of Nocturne elicited a few smiles ( Parsons performing prodigies in representing the burgeoning June night ) there was a touching ecstasy in Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt which was delivered absolutely from the heart .
26 A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune .
27 Indeed , I agree entirely with what the Leader of the Opposition said a few years ago , that ’ proportional representation is fundamentally counter-democratic in any case . ’
28 There were several cars in the drive and when I went into the house I saw that Mrs Rumney had a few people in for drinks ; people like herself — upper class and of obvious refinement .
29 A transparent humanoid figure hovered a few feet away .
30 One night , at home in the beach house he and Astrid , their son Alexander and I were sharing , Den had a few Scotches sitting around the piano and revealed a talent for playing ‘ Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ’ with his nose .
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