Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Urquhart stopped and turned a few yards ahead of her . |
| 32 | " Oh , lay off , " said Clelia , and pulled away from him , and skipped a few steps on the green short grass , and then did rather a professional cartwheel . |
| 33 | ‘ Soon I thought I might as well try to get into a band and so I answered a few ads in Melody Maker and joined a few bands . |
| 34 | Modern plastics and silicones have made pipe connections so easy : no more messing about with tarred hemp and mortar , which inevitably cracked and leaked a few years later . |
| 35 | Kalchu stood up , holding the bowl of rice and blood , and threw a few grains into the air in four directions . |
| 36 | He rose , flung his arms wide , took a deep inhalation of sea air and climbed the few paces to the top of the dune where he would be visible to the clothed . |
| 37 | Holly kicked the snow from his shoes against the jamb of the door and climbed the few steps into Hut 2 . |
| 38 | With his bare feet he strained against the side of the container , and heard a few cracks . |
| 39 | One night , he recalls , he sat alone in the Commons library when David Owen passed by and returned a few moments later with David Marquand . |
| 40 | She disappeared back into the kitchen and returned a few minutes later carrying a very dirty and dusty bottle of wine . |
| 41 | He disappeared into the shelves and returned a few minutes later , holding a book . |
| 42 | Dieter went off and returned a few minutes later with the information that Marie-Claire never came in on a Wednesday because her children 's school was closed on that day . |
| 43 | She hurried off and returned a few minutes later with a tiny white gown . |
| 44 | Getting lazily to his feet , he went out , and returned a few minutes later to announce , ‘ There 's a snack being laid out for you in the dining-room . |
| 45 | He went indoors and returned a few minutes later with the shoe box . |
| 46 | Doc Threadneedle ordered another drink , and tipped a few drops into Jessamyn 's water . |
| 47 | Suddenly restless , she rose to her feet and walked a few steps away from him , resting her elbows on the garden gate as she looked far away into the empty distance . |
| 48 | I lost my footing at one point and collected a few bruises . |
| 49 | Here interest is revived by the sight of Sulber Pot and intensified a few yards further where , in a hollow , Nick Pot is seen ; alternative entrances combine below the surface at the top of a vertical shaft that falls sheer to a depth of 370 feet . |
| 50 | I 'm afraid I 've lost a few friends and challenged a few others . |
| 51 | She smiled , and exchanged a few words with him ; then others came to say farewell . |
| 52 | Many of the prisoners smiled and exchanged a few words either directly with the governor or with people in our party . |
| 53 | The Chief Detective Inspector who would later take on the investigation looked in , and exchanged a few words with the Detective-Sergeant . |
| 54 | He swayed and teetered a few times , and there were gasps from the onlookers . |
| 55 | She had a quick look round the room and shoved a few things out of sight in the glory-hole cupboard . |
| 56 | He took a run at the tree trunk , and scrambled a few feet up before pitching on his head . |
| 57 | She stretched out her hand and pulled a few leaves from one of the overhanging bows . |
| 58 | Beatrice looked round carefully once more and named a few Lionisers . |
| 59 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 60 | Intel Corp president and chief executive Andy Grove was in Japan last week speaking at the Downsizing Japan conference in Makuhari , near Tokyom , and delivered a few comments about the future of the industry in which Intel is such as major player , and about semiconductors as a trade issue . |