Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 2 | Looking at the relaxed poses in our photographs , it will come as no surprise to learn that Clarissa modelled for a few years back in the 60s . |
| 3 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
| 4 | He then fainted for a few seconds . |
| 5 | ‘ I am taking you to Jaén , ’ he announced after a few miles . |
| 6 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 7 | Inspired by the arrival of The Beatles to play the guitar , he bought a cheap Harmony electric and a Kalamazoo amp and dabbled for a few years before joining a high school covers band , playing soul , rock and a good deal of Hendrix . |
| 8 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 9 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 10 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |
| 11 | Weighed down by the burden of representing all of black experience in a half-hour sitcom , most perished after a few series . |
| 12 | We also stopped after a few paces and turned to look back at her . |
| 13 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
| 14 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 15 | They moved on a few steps , again stood together , and wrote , " Angry . |
| 16 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 17 | yeah so we create a supervisor , we 've thrown numbers at the er the typing , swopped around a few hours , changed a bit here , changed a bit there , it 's all cosmetic stuff around the edges |
| 18 | Farncombe took the lead after ten minutes , but Haslemere soon equalised through an own goal . |
| 19 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 20 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 21 | Atletico scored through an own goal from Juan Carlos . |
| 22 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 23 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 24 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 25 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 26 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 27 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 28 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 29 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 30 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |