Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After a few days with me he starts to calm down and see things in perspective again , ’ she reveals . |
| 2 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 3 | There 's a bust of the author in Exeter college chapel ; one of the few reminders of him in Oxford . |
| 4 | Because they Hyflo has 4 outlets , and I am trying to keep within budget , I would make do with 4 plates with a gap of a few inches between them — the overall effect should be total bottom filtration as there would be some sideways suction across the gravel in the gaps . |
| 5 | When he was a pace in front of her , nothing but a jangling space of a few inches between them , his voice was feather-soft . |
| 6 | Even If you are not religious , it is a welcome chance for social contact and the exchange of a few pleasantries with him . |
| 7 | pigeon hole , you know it 's just like bit of , scrap of paper with like a few names on it |
| 8 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 9 | On 15 December Helen 's baby , a tiny perfect girl , was born , but her labour was long and difficult and she was very ill for a few days after it . |
| 10 | Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it . |
| 11 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 12 | Julia set off towards the Dorsoduro , beginning to feel really ill with a headache pounding behind her left eyebrow , smarting eyes , a rasped throat and a nose that felt as though it were stuffed with hot , wet flannel with a few pins in it , but even so she decided to give her lesson . |
| 13 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us . |
| 16 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 17 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them . |
| 20 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 21 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |