Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , along with two other historians who had , like me , secured entry to Oxford or Cambridge , I was given a few science tutorials in my last term at school . |
| 2 | I was involved a few years ago in the in the Lance , the rescue er That the lance went ashore on Hoy and er the helicopter there took the casualties of the Lance and dropped |
| 3 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 4 | I was paid a few pence , and very welcome it was too . |
| 5 | After Hackman 's departure , Dustin felt even more insecure , remembering that he had himself been fired a few times for not satisfying the director . |
| 6 | PLANS to turn the site of a former explosives factory at Annan , Dumfriesshire , into Scotland 's top rallying centre were put forward yesterday by the 300-strong Wigton Motor Club which is based a few miles over the Border in Cumbria . |
| 7 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 8 | After robbing the van , they made their getaway in the red car , which was abandoned a few hundred yards away . |
| 9 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 10 | you were asked a few questions about the contingency fund , was setting up the contingency fund , had it got any connection at all with the Daily Telegraph article ? |
| 11 | Mistakes — she 's made a few , but growing up in public was never easy . |
| 12 | ‘ So she 's learnt a few tables by heart , has she ? ’ |
| 13 | Lester Piggott ( eventually ) who 's ridden a few studs in his time as has |
| 14 | I heard that she was widowed a few days before the baby was born . |
| 15 | She was paid a few shillings to cover funerals , weddings and jumble sales at weekends . |
| 16 | Wellington looked to an aide who was seated a few places down the table . |
| 17 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 18 | Er , Jim , Birmingham , West er , Midlands er , supporting er , the sectionalization of the union because erm , we were told a few months ago it was passed for nineteen ninety one . |
| 19 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 20 | They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished , using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant . |
| 21 | They were married a few months later . |
| 22 | That that used to be mentioned between us er er a few times , I can remember it being mentioned a few times . |
| 23 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 24 | He says that he 's joined a few agencies , with no luck . |
| 25 | He 's made a few of the lads sit up , and now they 've got to take a good , hard look at themselves . ’ |
| 26 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 27 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 28 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 29 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 30 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |