Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 2 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 3 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 4 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 5 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 6 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 7 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 8 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 9 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 10 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 11 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 12 | Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five . |
| 13 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 14 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 15 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 16 | You should claim your pension a few months before you reach State pension age . |
| 17 | Mr Mekgwe was reportedly last seen in the company of three ANC men a few hours before he was due to give evidence . |
| 18 | IN A SPEECH a few weeks after he became Conservative Party chairman , Chris Patten developed an interesting thesis about this election . |
| 19 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 20 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |