Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he opened his eyes , spoke a few words and eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room . |
| 2 | In fact , I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college . |
| 3 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
| 4 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 5 | You only got a few minutes did n't you ? |
| 6 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 7 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 8 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |
| 9 | She only needed a few more bits and pieces . |
| 10 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 11 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 12 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 13 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 14 | When both together took a few slow hops down one of the runs near-by , Hazel followed and little by little they all three moved out of the hall . |
| 15 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 16 | In neither country were these created in the larger urban areas , but in the principality this only meant a few heavily populated areas in south Wales . |
| 17 | ‘ He only said a few words ’ Maxim said slowly trying to remember . |
| 18 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 19 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 21 | ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends . |
| 22 | We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands . |
| 23 | I only had a few weeks . |
| 24 | Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) . |
| 25 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 26 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 27 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 28 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 29 | He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went . |
| 30 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |