Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] 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 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 5 | There had to be more to it than simply filling in a few spaces with a ballpoint ; greater symbolic weight was required . |
| 6 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Turning over a few leaves . |
| 11 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 12 | Peering out a few seconds later , Manville saw him turn and begin to stroll down the street . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 16 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 17 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 18 | What does it involve other than sending out a few letters , keeping a record of what has been done , and putting some figures together at regular intervals ? |
| 19 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 20 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 21 | For instance you could n't , like nowadays , tighten up a slack scene where people were n't picking up their cues so quickly by cutting out a few pauses here and there . |
| 22 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |
| 23 | Wolfgang took the advice of his Mannheim friends — who professed themselves as disappointed as he on his lack of success — and decided to stay on until the spring , moving to cheaper lodgings and taking on a few pupils to earn money . |
| 24 | I also spoke of my difficulty in giving talks to the armed forces ; for nothing remotely intellectual was acceptable , and the only use which I felt I could be was in taking along a few maps and indicating the whereabouts of places increasingly mentioned on the wireless or the press ( though they read only the ‘ picture ’ papers ) . |
| 25 | Being of a so-called good family does n't mean much these days , and the sort of money required to keep things ticking over a few years back does n't get you anywhere now . |
| 26 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 27 | Sitting down with a slip of graph paper and jotting down a few ideas will help , you make sense of your thoughts . |
| 28 | Kayley Desmond , 14 months , had suffered three respiratory attacks where she suddenly stopped breathing over a few hours , Nurse Maxine Motley told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 29 | An Experiment ( 5 ) Extending Over a Few Days |
| 30 | His helmet slipped over his head three furlongs out and was dangling under his right armpit passing the post , falling off a few strides later . |