Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls squealed as their feet sank into six inches of mud , but they persevered after encouragement from the boys and found the bottom much firmer as they waded out a few more feet . |
| 2 | They barked loudly a few times , but Lorimer ran swiftly towards them . |
| 3 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 4 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 5 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 6 | But er , they had quite a few computers there , and I said to Ray find out how much the computers are . |
| 7 | erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland |
| 8 | They ran over a few in their minds , having acquired the same references . |
| 9 | At midday , the German assault waves appeared out of their holes , bayonets fixed ; ‘ They ran forward a few metres , then under the tac-tac of our machine gun , collapsed … . |
| 10 | They stayed thus a few , pulsing moments . |
| 11 | They picked up a few there Derek . |
| 12 | She linked her arm through Nathan 's and they pushed open a few doors , only to find empty rooms . |