Example sentences of "he [vb past] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a few passes and the castle diminished and shrank , as you see it now , and he made a pass or two more and it was walled with glass as you see . |
| 2 | He made a few records under the name of Joe Ritchie . |
| 3 | I mean , he made a few comments a but nothing that anybody could tell . |
| 4 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 5 | He made a few enquiries and was able to track down the thieves . |
| 6 | He stabbed a few keypads to make the point . |
| 7 | He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout . |
| 8 | Anyhow , he got a few horses from Besthorpe Hall , and one or two of the little farms ; and he jogged along until the time came when Mr Flowerdew came into Diss on a market day , and he saw my grandfather . |
| 9 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 10 | He got a few yards down , he said so I said well have yo you have n't come round to view the house today have you ? |
| 11 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 12 | He tried a few jokes to breach their blandness . |
| 13 | He tried a few handles . |
| 14 | This time he carried in one hand , carefully cupped , a broad leaf filled with honey ; in the other hand he grasped a few nuts which he thrust out to Marian with an air of uncertainty as though he feared they might be rejected as the maggots were . |
| 15 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 16 | He stopped a few yards away and waited . |
| 17 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |
| 18 | He scribbled a few lines on a scrap sheet to get the hang of Sampson 's cramped style , and then he started to fill in the form . |
| 19 | Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in . |
| 20 | He muttered a few words and his companions chuckled . |
| 21 | At the reception desk , he murmured a few words to the elaborately uniformed commissionaire and was shown respectfully towards the lift . |
| 22 | He dropped a few matches as he fumbled disconsolately with his smoking equipment . |
| 23 | ‘ He scored a few goals which were very important in our title push and it was a gamble that paid off . |
| 24 | he scored a few goals over there . |
| 25 | He camped a few miles outside the town and there remained , determined to outface Ras Tafari , whom he discounted as astute but weak . |
| 26 | He parked a few doors from 495 , walked the rest of the way , pushed open the black , freshly painted grille gate , noted the heavy net curtains masking the bay windows , stepped inside the quarry-tiled porch and pressed the bell . |
| 27 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |
| 28 | When he could n't think of any more women in government , he added a few authors , actresses , athletes — ‘ Jane Fonda , ’ he muttered , ‘ Chrissie Evert , Dusty Springfield , Adriana Rich ! ’ |
| 29 | He shifted his stool a little closer to Roxborough 's ; at the same time , he organized a few ounces of beer into the young man 's jacket pocket . |
| 30 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |