Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 2 | Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin . |
| 3 | In the morning Riven lay half awake , listening to the sound of the water close at hand , and for a few moments thought it was a quiet tide outside the bothy . |
| 4 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 5 | There are the rare cases , as with the bronze and brass Etruscan statuettes described above , where a few moments spent performing a surface analysis can unequivocally solve a problem , which might have remained a stylistic conundrum for ever . |
| 6 | He darted down the passage after Twoflower , and after a few moments came to a halt with a groan . |
| 7 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |
| 8 | The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and , after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs of self-conscious or self-absorbed politeness , he did what he had found best to do on such occasions . |
| 9 | I can already hear the objections from those clubs who have a few players tied up with the Championship . |
| 10 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 11 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 12 | You 've heard what happened when a few particles came into contact with the vagrant . |
| 13 | But it is just too hard to solve the equations when there are more than a few particles involved . |
| 14 | The last smear of faded orange was being sucked out of the sky and a few windows jumped into oblongs of light along the battered terrace . |
| 15 | A few scenes stood out awkwardly : Robyn soothing her tearful female student who ca n't do her essay because has to do a bit of modelling to make up her grant ( 'It 's not fair , ’ she sobs , in one of the script 's less ingenious lines ) ; Robyn 's unlikely outburst at a Pringle meeting when an Asian worker is nominated for sacking . |
| 16 | A few calls answered him . |
| 17 | I 've had a few copies made to be on the safe side : solicitors , banks … you know . |
| 18 | However , as early as the sixteenth century , we know from the fame already achieved by the wines of Aÿ that a few winemakers had begun to experiment with wines made from white grape only . |
| 19 | Even then they were superannuated geezers , and even though a few fools thought they were punks and the band did their best to encourage this image , really they were The Doors without Jim Morrison and with Bach on keyboards . |
| 20 | A few Holds survived , most notably Karaz a Karak , the Dwarf capital and greatest underground city of all . |
| 21 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 22 | Only a few states held out against Europe as staunchly as did Ethiopia . |
| 23 | A few mouths dropped open and then there were a few nervous giggles . |
| 24 | He moved closer , until just a few inches separated them , staring down into her eyes with intent written all over his face . |
| 25 | A few families followed a particular trade for a few generations , however . |
| 26 | Only a few families supported him , the rest were either wavering or hostile . |
| 27 | A few soldiers ran down the steps for a fag . |
| 28 | A few scientists began to think in terms of ‘ Little Bangs ’ ; later , more of them began to wonder about white holes . |
| 29 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 30 | However , quite a few teachers took an interest in what I was trying to do , especially the biology teachers , who were impressed with my knowledge of birds and conservation , and my English teachers , who soon heard all about my interest because whenever we had to give a talk in class , I would launch into a full lecture on rearing and handling owls and other birds of prey . |