Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Cameron was Head of Talks , and I was usually in charge of his visit , which kept me busy for the few days he would be with us , twice a year . |
| 2 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 3 | For a few minutes they would wander along the rails and then , suddenly , as though seized with panic , they would hasten back to the safety of the group they had left . |
| 4 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 5 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 6 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 7 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 8 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 9 | Within days of helping me you would be transferred back to the hospital wing of Vladimir , within a few months you would be home … think on it . |
| 10 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 11 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 12 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 13 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 14 | In a few minutes we would be ready for Firstlight , and then we 'd we clear . |
| 15 | But it was no use imagining ; in a few minutes she would know everything . |
| 16 | In a few minutes she would go down . |
| 17 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
| 18 | In a few moments I 'd like to tell you briefly about the trading background to the figures and to give you an indication of how business has been since the period ended and particularly since our important sale started on Boxing Day . |
| 19 | In a few days he would release him . |
| 20 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |
| 21 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 23 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 24 | In a few weeks she would part company with NCPR . |