Example sentences of "and a few [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind . |
| 2 | Most classrooms had at least one such area , usually a reading or library corner , and a few teachers had organized their rooms entirely in this way , forming as many as six or seven work areas . |
| 3 | Smoke billowed out and a few snowflakes fluttered into the car . |
| 4 | And a few companies found their senior women were suspicious rather than supportive . |
| 5 | This , unfortunately , had not always been the case and a few farmers complained about 12 and 24 hours notice for ATB courses . |
| 6 | Far away , through the mist , the blur of the city deepened like a sooty thumbprint and a few lights came out . |
| 7 | Broods regularly contain six or seven chicks , and a few parents produced eight or nine young . |
| 8 | Amid the banter and foul jibes of the crowd — drunk as all crowds are at a blood-letting — the God-bearer Mary and a few disciples stood numb with horror and dread as they saw their Lord and their champion humiliated , despised and broken . |
| 9 | The last smear of faded orange was being sucked out of the sky and a few windows jumped into oblongs of light along the battered terrace . |
| 10 | ‘ I and a few others got into Kuwait in the morning and we were finishing our day 's work at about 5pm . |
| 11 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 12 | While the Duke of Richmond and a few others remained calm , seeing the essentially limited nature of the outbreaks , some landowners , like Sir Godfrey Webster , temporarily returned from exile , thoroughly enjoyed themselves galloping around the country at night with troops of dragoons or coastguards to hunt down troublemakers . |
| 13 | Thus , when a number of media people went to Basra , Tony and a few others headed for Nasariyah . |
| 14 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 15 | He and a few friends discovered that there was big money to be made by injecting humour into an area traditionally ignored by the British — teaching staff how to be more effective . |
| 16 | One chub in the following thirty minutes and I was back on the feeder , four good chub and a few bits followed , no more barbel , and I finished with a total weight of 14lb . |
| 17 | After a previous band split up Dermot and a few mates recorded a track for a US compilation CD , called themselves Blink and thought no more about it . |
| 18 | Some royal mortuary cults were maintained for longer than others and a few kings became the subject of special worship , amongst whom were Amenophis I with his mother queen Ahmose-Nefertari as patron gods of the Theban necropolis , Sesostris III in Nubia , Amenemhat III in the Fayum , Amenophis III at Soleb , and Ramesses II at Abu Simbel and as patron of soldiers in the East Delta . |
| 19 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 20 | A few fought back and a few folks died , |
| 21 | The rank correlation between the two sets of scores was 0.5 ( N = 22 ) , and a few pupils had markedly different scores on the two occasions . |
| 22 | Though from time to time the editorial columns of both Uhuru and the Nationalist called for the Government to take the paper over , and a few MPs supported them , the Standard was not nationalized until February 1970 . |
| 23 | In addition , the National WEA provided small specific grants such as those towards the salaries of resident tutor-organisers and a few LEAs made grants towards the administrative costs of the District 's organisation . |
| 24 | The school and the hospital , hard-won gains of the miners , lacked patients and pupils , and a few people stood idly around the union building , former hub of the district . |
| 25 | Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him . |
| 26 | Rocks and a few trees trembled |