Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 2 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 3 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 4 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 5 | He asked them a few times . |
| 6 | They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains . |
| 7 | ‘ Alan Dysart phoned me a few days ago . ’ |
| 8 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 9 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 10 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 11 | I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz . |
| 12 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 13 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 14 | just told me a few minutes ago ! |
| 15 | Even , for instance , what you told me a few weeks back ? |
| 16 | Maybe it caused you a few problems , but you might be about to get your reward in heaven . |
| 17 | WE TOLD you a few weeks back that multi-million pound striker Marco Gabbiadini was on the way out at Derby . |
| 18 | So it 's very likely she told you a few fibs . |
| 19 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 20 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're a genius Lissa , ’ Adam told her a few minutes later . |
| 22 | Newman slowed his Mercedes 280E , parked it a dozen yards from the rear van . |
| 23 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 24 | According to what Texas Instruments Inc told us a few weeks ago ( UX No 405 ) , it certainly had the chips . |
| 25 | They told us a few months ago . |
| 26 | Well that was the question that Mr asked you a few minutes ago was n't it , er Mr ? |
| 27 | I must admit , we joined them a few moments later for a well-earned cuppa after our day 's exertions . |
| 28 | Theodora allowed him a few moments and then she said , gently , ‘ There is , is there not , one further element ? |
| 29 | He picked her up and threw her a few metres down the corridor . |
| 30 | He joined her a few minutes later carrying her drink and a glass of lager for himself . |