Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 3 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 4 | He picked her up and threw her a few metres down the corridor . |
| 5 | Behaving like an infatuated teenager , just because he 's taken me out , and kissed me a few times ? |
| 6 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 7 | Crossing to the bed , she put a hand behind Lucien 's head , raised it , and offered him a few sips of water from a rough ceramic bowl . |
| 8 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 9 | Gould wrote , though , to prince , and gave him a few rare but welcome words of encouragement and recognition for all his trouble . |
| 10 | And it but the erm the goats apparently were no problem today , they just stayed on and gave them a few bits and pieces you know so that was fair enough . |
| 11 | I hired a karaoke machine , went down the pub and gave 'em a few numbers ; ‘ Girl From Ipanema ’ , ‘ I Write The Songs ’ . |
| 12 | He lifted and carried her the few necessary steps , until she felt the yielding softness of his bed beneath her back . |