Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy occurred as John Robson , 15 , of Essex Close , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , went to collect paper money owed by Robyn Thrower , 25 , who lived a few doors down from his own . |
| 2 | Liddy was allowed a week 's holiday to visit her sister , who lived a few miles away . |
| 3 | William Horsley , 83 , was punched and kicked by the thug who snatched the few pounds he had on him . |
| 4 | Fowler , who arrived a few minutes later , was middle-aged ; he had stayed a detective constable ostensibly because he could not pass the examination for sergeant , but his colleagues claimed that he deliberately avoided promotion . |
| 5 | The phone was handed over to Erika , who confirmed the trip and then gave the phone to her mother , who exchanged a few banalities and then handed it to Omi , who cooed and clucked and finally returned it to Herr Nordern who said , briefly , that they all looked forward very much to seeing Karl again and firmly replaced the receiver before anyone else could claim it . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a very shaky area and we had one or two incidents with tribes who buzzed a few spears at us ’ , said Mark as he inhaled deeply on another cigarette . |
| 7 | The one hundred and sixty strong Pioneers left R A F Brize Norton early this afternoon ; they 'll be joining Major Colin Code who went a few days ago . |
| 8 | The world of dance has lost to AIDS not only its two biggest stars of the modern era , Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn , but also many less well-known talents ; they include a French choreographer , Dominique Bagouet , who died a few months ago in his early 30s . |
| 9 | There were a great many houses in the vicinity of Hadleigh of the same sort of size as Wyvis Hall and a newspaper would be likely to describe anyone who possessed a few acres as a ‘ landowner ’ . |
| 10 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 11 | But his lady stole the scene ; and those who remembered the few lines in the newspapers about Dinah Asshe some years ago stowed them , charitably , in the backs of their minds . |
| 12 | The guidelines contain a foreword by the Data Protection Registrar who had a few reservations about the guidelines . |
| 13 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
| 14 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 15 | If you 're that abusive cow who wrote a few weeks back , then you can drop dead for all I care . |
| 16 | ‘ Trouble with this door , ’ Deuce explained to Nicholas , who stood a few paces away sipping his champagne too quickly and ignoring the come-on of one of the dancing youths . |