Example sentences of "on the [noun] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 2 | He went on the course a few weeks later , two days in a hotel conference room which smelt of stale cigar smoke and small successes . |
| 3 | Liartes brought his mount in to land on the turf a few yards away and dismounted casually . |
| 4 | ‘ We spoke on the phone a few days ago . ’ |
| 5 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 6 | Rushing Wild 's jockey , Richard Dunwoody , gave Dwyer a pat on the back a few yards after the winning post . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're looking less peaky , ’ he said as she came to a halt on the slope a few yards below . |
| 8 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 9 | Her Suzy Lamplugh Trust personal rape alarm was lying on the ground a few feet away . |
| 10 | Running on , I saw a dim shape kneeling on the ground a few yards ahead of me . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard him being interviewed on the news a few minutes ago , ’ Bridget added . |
| 12 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 13 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 14 | The new tunnel opened on the left a few yards from the foot of the stairs . |
| 15 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 16 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 17 | Seems he bought a small-holding on the moor a few years back and set up these classes . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 19 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 20 | Satan ran back and forth on the line a few times , snout quivering as it tasted the delicious scent trace . |