Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 2 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 3 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 4 | The Chancellor has shifted a few factors around , that 's all . |
| 5 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 6 | but I 've had a few years out |
| 7 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had a few numbers on . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But when the young folk of the dale were given a few hours off we certainly made the most of it . |
| 10 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 11 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 12 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 13 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 14 | Hyperoid It 's Asteroids by another name , again with some additions ( although I was never any good at this one , so maybe they 've just chopped a few levels out ) . |
| 15 | But I 've thrown a few things out , as well . |
| 16 | You 're the only person there wearing the ball gown , you 're the only person there getting their photograph taken a hundred times over |
| 17 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
| 18 | Their marriage had nearly ended a few months back . |
| 19 | We had our water tested a few weeks back and everything was fine . |