Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
2 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
3 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
4 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
5 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
6 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
7 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
8 | For the first few weeks I was seldom off the toilet bowl myself . |
9 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
10 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
11 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
12 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
13 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
14 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
15 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
16 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
17 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
18 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
19 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
20 | During the first few nights he had found sleep almost impossible . |
21 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
22 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
23 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
24 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
25 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |
26 | In the first few weeks they treated his wife nicely . |
27 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
28 | If you experience fret buzz on the first few frets you have over-tightened things . |
29 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |