Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I entered a few eisteddfods and competitions and did the exams but that was as far as I went . |
| 2 | If the gallery outside the silver door had hummed and quivered and thrown out heat before , now the sensations were magnified and multiplied a hundred times as Calatin set the Silver Looms to harness the power of the sorcerer . |
| 3 | We did so , heaving and pushing until the bed moved a few inches and I saw the slight scorch mark on the stone floor beneath . |
| 4 | She caught a few words but did not hear Fru Gertlinger say , ‘ It would be best to say nothing , I think . |
| 5 | This created a few problems as intense rivalry was felt between the children from the two towns . |
| 6 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |
| 7 | I then added a few aerobics and , together with some great music , the new Intensive Stretching and Aerobic Programme was complete . |
| 8 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
| 9 | He dropped a few matches as he fumbled disconsolately with his smoking equipment . |
| 10 | It spawned a trillion imitators and forced Primal Scream to become space-age voodoo rave psychedelecists . |
| 11 | It attracted a large Customs and Excise office and the Access credit card headquarters , but tourists were not encouraged . |
| 12 | He muttered a few words and his companions chuckled . |
| 13 | Knight bannerets of the king 's household stopped them but Cranston muttered a few words and they let him by . |
| 14 | This is the video to huff and puff away to in the privacy of your living room — it received an overall thumbs-up as safe , enjoyable , well-presented , high quality exercise . |
| 15 | Reaching it she climbed a few rungs and looked over the heads of the people and the cockpit where a double ring of candles hung low on iron chains from the rafters , spreading a brilliant pool of light . |
| 16 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 17 | The crowd threw a few rocks and dispersed . |
| 18 | Miss Bedwelty arrived a few minutes after they did and they all piled into the factory . |
| 19 | The message probably arrived a few minutes after we left . |
| 20 | When the head of the Commissioners , Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve , who was no man to be trifled with , arrived a few days after the Commissioners approved the expenditure , the butler Alexander showed him the restoration already complete . |
| 21 | It seems that the Sultan was one of the first victims of non-standardization ; he paid a thousand dollars for a machine for which only one cylinder was ever made ! |
| 22 | Corbett whispered a few words and the friar looked up sharply and nodded . |
| 23 | He quickly devoured a few fragments and stuffed into a bag a lot of miscellaneous food which Irina was evidently leaving behind . |
| 24 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 25 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 26 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 27 | He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout . |
| 28 | The back line made a few errors but there was n't anyone on the Southampton side able to take advantage . |
| 29 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 30 | She made a few attempts and found that she could not work , she could not even read . |