Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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1 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
2 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
3 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
4 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
5 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
6 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
7 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
8 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
9 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
10 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
11 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
12 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
13 | For years , he and Hank had exchanged only a few words , but now they began to talk , drawn together by the magic of money ; and Hank was surprised and flattered to find that the elder man was entranced by his sudden success . |
14 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
15 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
16 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
17 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
18 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
19 | The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie . |
20 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
21 | Pretty girls moved through McIllvanney 's life at an astonishing rate , though the last , who had endured a record six months , had left just a few weeks before . |
22 | It was brilliantly sunny , as though summer had leapt forward a few months . |
23 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
24 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
25 | There had been no problem in finding a matching replacement for the cut piece ; a hardware shop in Inverness had supplied it , and it had taken only a few minutes to fit . |
26 | Gough Square was no backwater — Dr. Samuel Johnson had lived there a few years before — and a Gough Square lady must have been a good catch for an impecunious cheesemonger 's son . |
27 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
28 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
29 | Syl 's previous engagement had ended only a few months before . |
30 | At the end of a torrid first half , Heriot 's led 5-0 , though they had paid only a few fleeting visits to the Stirling 22 . |