Example sentences of "did a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he was n't fighting shadows , he 'd just spend the morning dozing on his mattress while I paced back and forth and sometimes did a few push-ups and other exercises . |
| 2 | And then we took a remote truck down to Carl 's house and did a few things in his den . |
| 3 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 4 | Someone always has to start the clapping and when she did a few others followed . |
| 5 | We left , as did a few others . |
| 6 | I did a few concerts with him , he was a very good performer . |
| 7 | I did a few odds and ends in the garden on Saturday , played a round of golf on Sunday morning . |
| 8 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 9 | She responded , but almost as if I was n't there , so I did a few gestures in front of her face — Signalman Flagging Down Runaway Express , sort of thing — and she briefly focused on me and laughed and then went back into her secret nuptial sett . |
| 10 | I do remember we did a few gigs . |
| 11 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | So what you want then is the sheet we did a few weeks ago just about the erm |
| 13 | We did a few weeks ago |
| 14 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 15 | I did a few jobs for you — mostly , I listened to people and passed information along . |
| 16 | That 's what the bosses of master brewer Guinness did a few years ago . |
| 17 | Tom 's latest acquisition is EMF 's Unbelievable and he makes the song as much his own as he did a few years ago with Prince 's Kiss . |
| 18 | Well we did a few years ago . |
| 19 | We did a few vocals and overdubs and eventually the album was mixed bar one track , which he did somewhere else . |