Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 2 | When she saw a test of it she was extremely pleased and told him to run off a few hundred yards . |
| 3 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what people must think to hear him haggling over a few dollars . |
| 4 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 5 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 6 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 7 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 8 | He moved back a few paces and , without pausing to think , took a running leap out into the chasm between the two houses . |
| 9 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 10 | He staggered back a few steps and , massaging his face , mumbled in complete astonishment to nobody in particular : ‘ He hit me ! ’ |
| 11 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 12 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 13 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 14 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 15 | He scored quite a few goals , I remember one in particular against Arsenal in some cup game in the dying seconds of extra time ( there was still long enough for Arsenal to equalise though ) . |
| 16 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 17 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 18 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 19 | Should he dash off a few writs ? |
| 20 | There the young ladies ' brother found me , when he returned home a few minutes later , and he insisted , much against the housekeeper 's wishes , on bringing me into the house . |
| 21 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 22 | And just to prove it , he crooned out a few bars in an impressively melodious baritone : ‘ Nice people with nice habits , and got no money at all . ’ |
| 23 | He switched on a few lights , took off his coat and tie and rolled up his sleeves , then he pottered around the kitchen making himself a good night mug of milkless tea . |
| 24 | When he 's finished his ballet routine — ‘ Lots of people come to see what Joe Mangle is going to do , and when I appear on stage doing my best arabesque , you can feel people thinking ‘ Oh no , he 's really lost the plot ’ — he throws out a few one-liners . |
| 25 | In order to survive , he took on a few composition pupils , including the daughter of the Duc de Guines , who was an outstanding flautist and harpist . |
| 26 | Carefully he sorted out a few chips on his plate . |
| 27 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 28 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
| 29 | Trooper Consiglio was killed in a firefight as the patrol retreated towards Syria , before Corporal Lane also developed hypothermia … he died just a few miles from the border . |
| 30 | Turry has to be the best-armed hero of all time and when he picks up a few power-ups you 'd think he was invincible . |