Example sentences of "[noun pl] a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye . |
| 2 | Jus ’ fink of it , mate , me an' you givin' the lads a few lessons an' organisin' a few tournaments . |
| 3 | I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published ! |
| 4 | With the invitations , it is helpful to give other parents a few ideas as to how they may make their children 's costumes . |
| 5 | The stave is budded and sports a few leaves as in some versions of the tarot . |
| 6 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 7 | He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on . |
| 8 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 9 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 10 | Mr Mekgwe was reportedly last seen in the company of three ANC men a few hours before he was due to give evidence . |
| 11 | Despite being normally mesmerised by the subject of the early Renaissance artists , on this occasion I was grateful to see the professor stacking up his papers a few minutes before the lecture was scheduled to end . |
| 12 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 13 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |