Example sentences of "[vb past] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although Wordsworth contributed a few lines , he quickly realized that attempts at collaboration were once again bound to fail : ‘ … |
| 2 | It also provided a few snippets of absurd press . |
| 3 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 4 | ‘ I entered a few eisteddfods and competitions and did the exams but that was as far as I went . |
| 5 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 6 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 7 | Okay we changed a few words just to fit the words we could find , but yes , we , we had about a minute at the end , we read it through , and yes , it was fine . |
| 8 | He took up a pen and drew a few lines on a notepad — meaningless lines that irritated her as she watched . |
| 9 | Although Emes designed a few minor buildings , such as a lodge at Attingham and a greenhouse at Penrice , his role as an architect is not significant . |
| 10 | In an earlier chapter we described a few of the complex relationships which exist between different species and different kingdoms of nature . |
| 11 | Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled . |
| 12 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
| 13 | Lepine took a cap , put on his Kodiak boots , and scrawled a few letters ; to two friends , and on to the public at large . |
| 14 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 15 | Her death rated a few lines in the papers , but the full significance of her passing went unreported . |
| 16 | The Ship rose a few feet , wobbling alarmingly . |
| 17 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 18 | In the dream , but not in memory , a mist rose a few feet above the surface of the water like a veil over a familiar face . |
| 19 | The pod temperature rose a few degrees more , and then levelled out . |
| 20 | Because I retained a few French words and phrases and could make myself understood in his language he had assumed a much wider knowledge than I possessed . |
| 21 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
| 22 | ‘ Helen phoned a few times . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State for Energy , on the Monday of the Labour party annual conference , phoned a few national newspaper editors to talk the Conservative party out of a general election this month . |
| 24 | Below : The Nfis Slabs — descending them posed a few problems ( photos by the author ) . |
| 25 | One day we were poking around in some sodden ashes by the rear exit and found a few slivers of celluloid with images on them . |
| 26 | Deal and Dover boats found a few codling at Fan Bay and other inshore marks . |
| 27 | Rough seas hit boat fishing off Walney Island and Barrow anglers unable to get out anywhere except in the Roa Channel where they found a few small codling and dabs . |
| 28 | Eventually Anthony took the pad away and found a few albino strands growing behind . |
| 29 | He pressed her to remember details , and she found a few ; none of them matching anything in his vivid dream , which disappointed him . |
| 30 | There are a few areas where descriptions are skimped ( for instance of Doppler effect ) and I found a few small errors . |