Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 2 | Lorne tried chanting a few limericks over and over , but we never saw the eels again , though we dived there often . |
| 3 | Nance Frank , one who was dropped , tried to put an all women crew together but failed dismally . |
| 4 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 5 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 6 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 7 | After the presentation of the well-deserved awards by the Sunday Times ' editor Andrew Neil , TEC director Les Bell rose to say a few words . |
| 8 | He bent to throw a few pieces of turf on the fire and was reminded that the locals called them sods of turf . |
| 9 | When he tried to construct a few sentences in his mind — excusing himself — excusing Rose — they did n't sound lucid . |
| 10 | The oldest woman in the refuge had worked as a railway clerk , in a sausage factory , a pop factory and in a factory making bingo boards until she stopped working a few years earlier and was put on invalidity benefit . |
| 11 | ‘ I stopped working a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 13 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 14 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 15 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 16 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 17 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 18 | Frankly , she looked as if she 'd got a few bundles of twelve-page letters stuffed up her woolly even now . |
| 19 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
| 20 | She did n't correct enough or she lost control or maybe she 'd had a few bevvies . |
| 21 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 22 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 23 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 24 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 25 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 26 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
| 27 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 28 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 29 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 30 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |