Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] a [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But to my surprise , he phoned me back a few days later , and offered to help me .
2 Oh I phoned her back a few days later and said how are things now ?
3 I 'd seen him around a few times .
4 see that , that come aha , well that carpet we 've got in the sitting room you know , it was , it was twelve hundred pound , only put it down a few , er a few months before we
5 Rainbow spins it round a few times , and whistles .
6 I know it is , it 's not exactly doing a lot for me either but er cos it gets raised every bloody management meeting but I think having discussed the matter we 've actually opened ourselves out a few more options than we probably thought we had
7 Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon .
8 ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’
9 Erm , it 's a city , this takes me back a few months , since the Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry , the character , special character of a city , is derives from a number of elements , there 's the green wedges which centre on the strays which penetrate into the heart of the built up area , there is the encircling belt of open countryside which links those areas together , there are the numerous settlements within the greenbelt and their relationship to one another , and to the city of York .
10 This has set me back a few weeks , that 's all .
11 ‘ Someone tried to run him over a few hours ago .
12 ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays .
13 She eased herself down a few rungs , praying it would n't collapse under her .
14 Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time .
15 I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm
16 Doc Reid dishes me out a few vitamin pills when I 'm feeling lousy . ’
17 TO peel the chestnuts , use a sharp knife to make a couple of slits in the skin of each one , put them in a saucepan , pour over enough boiling water to cover and simmer over a medium heat for about 5 minutes , then take them out a few at a time , drain and refresh them under running cold water .
18 Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later .
19 I think they closed it down a few years later .
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