Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bravd , galloping along a few feet away , nodded . |
| 2 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 3 | Jess said , climbing down a few rungs . |
| 4 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 5 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 6 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 7 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 8 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 9 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 10 | There had to be more to it than simply filling in a few spaces with a ballpoint ; greater symbolic weight was required . |
| 11 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 12 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 13 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 14 | All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed . |
| 15 | This bright red bus is large and suitable for serving quite a few children . |
| 16 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 17 | Channichthyid fish of antarctic waters , for example the icefish Champsocephalus aceratus , are unusual in possessing only a few erythrocytes ( red blood corpuscles ) as larvae and none as adults ; related species have much reduced erythrocyte counts throughout life . |
| 18 | The smallholder , growing only a few rows , will probably ‘ dibble ’ the tubers into the original ridges by hand , thereby saving the subsequent ridging operation . |
| 19 | Turning over a few leaves . |
| 20 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 21 | Peering out a few seconds later , Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street . |
| 22 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 23 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
| 24 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 25 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 26 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 27 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale . |
| 30 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |