Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 'd better collect a few more like that : then you can make a notice board and frighten Fiver . |
| 2 | Perhaps , when he 'd dropped her , he 'd better give a little thought to damage limitation and the covering of his tracks . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better break a few rules . ’ |
| 4 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 5 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 6 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 7 | We 'd all had a few drinks . |
| 8 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 9 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |
| 10 | A few yards beyond this , the tramway turned left to terminate a few yards into Thicket Road , by the Penge entrance of the Crystal Palace grounds . |
| 11 | Laurence del Brok probably died a few days before 25 December 1274 . |
| 12 | I took up my pint as Jamie settled in to blast a few of the gaudy formations . |
| 13 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 14 | ‘ The young man you saw merely exchanged a few words in English with me , and his arm was on the back of the seat — not cuddling me ! |
| 15 | I saw Best play a few times . |
| 16 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
| 17 | And that 's like an old specification tarted up to sell a few extra cars . |
| 18 | This did not reflect a few well-organized sectors and a larger number of unorganized ones as was the case in the United States , for example , where the average level of unionization was similar . |
| 19 | I mean you 've got to try and keep yourself afloat , and then even that 's not going to help you , if nobody comes along and picks you up either , so I mean that But I mean I I did n't Oh well I Suppose I could say I gave up hope a few times but obviously if you s The struggle to survive comes through in the long run , and I mean it 's it 's not easy to give up hope , |
| 20 | Mrs , for her part , did n't want a culture-less idiot for progeny but someone she could talk to as an adult : i.e. , she did n't want someone too like his father . |
| 21 | Yeah to go back to work on this Thursday but we did n't go an all we should have gone then . |
| 22 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |
| 23 | It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many . |
| 24 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 25 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 26 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 27 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 28 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 29 | Unhappily , it had only lasted a few short weeks , but all their friends still shuddered at the memory of their truly spectacular fights ! |
| 30 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |