Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Bernice staggered a few steps forward . |
| 10 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 11 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Two howitzer shells exploded a few paces from his horse , both blasts beginning small fires among the rye . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other . |
| 17 | Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later . |
| 18 | They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 . |
| 19 | His eyes went a few degrees cooler . |
| 20 | There has been an encouraging response since the club advertised a few days ago . |
| 21 | Bernice took a few moments break from her search to reach up and snap it off . |
| 22 | Marie took a few steps towards him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | A transparent humanoid figure hovered a few feet away . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The vole pointed a few paces further along . |
| 29 | Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later . |
| 30 | She had dropped stitches continually in her knitting ( she was knitting a yellow angora sweater for Victoria ) and started whenever the shop-bell jangled or the parakeet muttered a few words to itself . |