Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Curtis came in with Humber a few minutes later . |
| 2 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 3 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 4 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
| 5 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 7 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
| 8 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |