Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 2 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 3 | The dog moved off a few paces and turned back , wagging his tail anxiously . |
| 4 | He staggered back a few steps and , massaging his face , mumbled in complete astonishment to nobody in particular : ‘ He hit me ! ’ |
| 5 | In his office an anxious Herr Nordern gouged out a few marks from unenthusiastic colleagues for a wreath for Steinmark 's funeral . |
| 6 | He moved back a few paces and , without pausing to think , took a running leap out into the chasm between the two houses . |
| 7 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 8 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 9 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 10 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 11 | Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around . |
| 12 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 13 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 14 | The attendant giggled and came back a few minutes later with another bowl of rice and chicken , which Myeloski despatched with his customary enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) . |
| 16 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 17 | After a while , Corbett nodded , handed over a few coins and left , his face wreathed in a complacent smile . |
| 18 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 19 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 20 | Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling . |
| 21 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 22 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 23 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 24 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 25 | A woman got up a few rows back , and threw the hood off her head . |
| 26 | The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills ; Carson walked up a few steps near the end of the alley and pushed open the door of a tradesman 's entrance . |
| 27 | The man shuffled back a few paces , bent almost double . |
| 28 | She stopped , then reversed back a few feet until she could turn into the open gateway . |
| 29 | And just to prove it , he crooned out a few bars in an impressively melodious baritone : ‘ Nice people with nice habits , and got no money at all . ’ |
| 30 | Bernice and Defries stepped back a few paces , to where Daak 's shrieking chainsword was slicing a hole in the curved wall . |