Example sentences of "to [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tareq Aziz travelled to Moscow a few days later , perhaps with the aim of clearing the air where he encountered the Soviet leader Gorbachev . |
| 2 | Some hours of searching brought to light a few finds , these being small targets but nevertheless interesting ones . |
| 3 | A survey of usage also brings to light a few cases of a rare use — the to infinitive denoting an action after make . |
| 4 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
| 5 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
| 6 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 7 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
| 8 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
| 9 | In a letter to Gould a few months later , Lear , with characteristic self-pity , excuses his poor output : |
| 10 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 12 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
| 13 | We will return to Morvich a few pages further on . |
| 14 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 15 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |
| 16 | In the View from the Hotel Mistral , executed on Braque 's return to Paris a few months later , the influence of Cézanne is even more marked . |
| 17 | ‘ You have an immense output , ’ Willoughby said severely to Emily a few weeks later , leaning over her desk as if he were a judge himself . |
| 18 | In 1978 the Japanese-American physicist J. J. Sakurai ( who died tragically while on a visit to CERN a few months ago ) and his student P. Q. Hung answered this question in a remarkably simple way . |
| 19 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
| 20 | The sixth child was taken captive but returned to friends a few years later . |
| 21 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 22 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 23 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 24 | He made his way to Bute a few days later . |
| 25 | He had already invited his new young friend to travel to Stowey a few weeks later , and when they parted after six miles , Hazlitt was possessed by a single thought : ‘ I was to visit Coleridge in the spring . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 27 | ‘ And of course , I do feed bad about it , ’ Maxim confessed to Agnes a few minutes later . |
| 28 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 29 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 30 | As Lorenz wrote , ‘ one of them may be inclined to go on to mouth-pulling a few seconds before the other one . |