Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] 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 In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely .
7 He stabbed a few keypads to make the point .
8 He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 ?
12 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 .
13 He read the few lines through , then closed his eyes for a moment before reading aloud .
14 He tried a few jokes to breach their blandness .
15 He tried a few handles .
16 ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work .
17 He has a few swigs and then .
18 He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had .
19 For he has a few ideas of his own .
20 He has a few suggestions for those tempted to try aerial photography .
21 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 .
22 I think he needs a few drinks ! ’
23 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 .
24 He stopped a few yards away and waited .
25 But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears .
26 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 .
27 Looking the picture of misery and helplessness , he snatched a few words with me as I waited to go in .
28 He says a few lordships are cursing his name because it ca n't be helping them to survive .
29 He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed .
30 He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls !
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