Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 2 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 3 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 4 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 6 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 7 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 8 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 9 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 10 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 11 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 12 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 13 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |
| 15 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 16 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 17 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 18 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 19 | She told him her husband had left her a few months before for another woman . |
| 20 | That had taken me a little time , partly as I was still sleepy , partly as I had so convinced myself Old Red had reported me . |
| 21 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 22 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 23 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |