Example sentences of "[verb] there a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
2 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
3 | A Mr Carey ( with his girlfriend ) began squatting there a few months later , and offered to pay rent which amounted to an acknowledgement of title , but this was refused . |
4 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
5 | Gough Square was no backwater — Dr. Samuel Johnson had lived there a few years before — and a Gough Square lady must have been a good catch for an impecunious cheesemonger 's son . |
6 | And that was and that was something that was achieved , ha having lived there a few years , you think |
7 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |