Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommy asked when the duty corporal entered the barracks a few minutes before lights out . |
| 2 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
| 3 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 4 | I will certainly reiterate fully the message that I delivered when I visited the north-west a few days ago . |
| 5 | The explosion lifted the ship a few feet clear out of the water , smashing the superstructure against the low tunnel roof even as the hull burst open with a blaze of fire . |
| 6 | The new chain , though , caused the human a few problems . |
| 7 | He followed in his own limousine — then drove the Panhard a few hundred yards to the finishing line . |
| 8 | I parked the car a few doors away from the Newton house , which looked neat enough behind a freshly painted fence , and ran the gauntlet of half a dozen youngsters who were all offering to mind my car . |
| 9 | He practised the phrase a few times and then stuffed the book back in the outside pocket of his jacket . |
| 10 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 11 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 12 | Mary was standing in the middle of her room when they opened the door a few minutes later . |
| 13 | Construction workers then raised the beam a few inches . |
| 14 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 15 | These devices hit the headlines a few years back when two cars in the United States collided at a closing speed of some 70 miles per hour . |
| 16 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 17 | A Princeton professor who investigated the campaigns a few years later put it more bitterly : ‘ Cynical pseudo-egalitarianism replaced an older commitment to the maintenance of national standards . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I saw the board a few weeks ago , when I — ‘ |
| 19 | He saw the ball a few seconds earlier than other batsmen . ’ |
| 20 | They reached the lake a few hours later . |
| 21 | But they reached the shore a few moments before Lucenzo . |
| 22 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 23 | Alison reached the bridge a few minutes late , and she apologised . |
| 24 | Max now exposed Kemp 's torso and heaved the corpse a few inches off the table . |
| 25 | no fuss and I said ooh , I said I forgot about her being forty , I bought the card a few weeks ago |
| 26 | She completed the course a few pounds heavier and clutching a diploma for her efforts . |
| 27 | Mrs Porter herself answered the question a few moments later . |
| 28 | He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on . |
| 29 | When the exorcism was carried out , and Gittel and her husband left the district a few weeks later , I dropped into a kind of daze . |
| 30 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |