Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] [pers pn] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 2 | After a few minutes we were shaking hands . |
| 3 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 4 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 5 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 6 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 7 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 8 | But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea . |
| 9 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 11 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 12 | Within a few weeks they were regular visitors . |
| 13 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 14 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 15 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 16 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 17 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 18 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 19 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 20 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 21 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
| 22 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |