Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 2 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 3 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 4 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 5 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 6 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 7 | He scored quite a few goals , I remember one in particular against Arsenal in some cup game in the dying seconds of extra time ( there was still long enough for Arsenal to equalise though ) . |
| 8 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 9 | There the young ladies ' brother found me , when he returned home a few minutes later , and he insisted , much against the housekeeper 's wishes , on bringing me into the house . |
| 10 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 11 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 12 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
| 13 | Trooper Consiglio was killed in a firefight as the patrol retreated towards Syria , before Corporal Lane also developed hypothermia … he died just a few miles from the border . |
| 14 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 15 | I remember David had a look of amazement on his face because at this point he had quite a few gold albums , but he still did n't have the money because the rate that they made money went straight back into making the show even bigger and better , and everybody travelled in style . |
| 16 | He had quite a few , half a dozen there in the gunroom , with the light one he got for Neil as a boy , and I used to use . |
| 17 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 18 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
| 19 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 20 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 21 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 22 | Peter Dawson had been considerably older than Isobel and since he had only a few more years to serve in the army , had decided to establish a permanent home in his native town . |
| 23 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought , ’ he said calmly a few minutes later , ‘ we had agreed not to discuss the past . ’ |
| 25 | Because he wrote quite a few letter in Welsh and he would dictate them to er Margaret . |
| 26 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 27 | He sat only a few feet from the screen , perched on the edge of the bed , a study in confusion and misery . |
| 28 | Showing no emotion , he remained only a few minutes before turning away . |
| 29 | Yeah , this one , cos he knows quite a few , thi , few things about films so I wo n't say that one |
| 30 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |