Example sentences of "it [art] few [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We 'll try it a few times just to put it all into practice .
2 He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot .
3 No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago .
4 Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later .
5 When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty .
6 I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz .
7 Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds .
8 okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed .
9 ‘ You as good as admitted it a few moments ago , although your opinion of Elise does n't coincide with mine …
10 It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’
11 He bought it a few days ago .
12 She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there .
13 I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’
14 Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter .
15 Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ?
16 They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal .
17 She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women .
18 In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier .
19 The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top .
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