Example sentences of "[vb past] it a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
2 | I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz . |
3 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
4 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
5 | A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches . |
6 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
7 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
8 | And we saw it a few times did n't we ? |
9 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
10 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |
11 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
12 | He bought it a few days ago . |
13 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
14 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
15 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
16 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
17 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
18 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |