Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes we watched them crossing the field , alongside the hedgerow . |
| 2 | Each visit guaranteed he would leave behind some of his property and after a few weeks we 'd accumulated his record player , eight boxes of books and his Rupert Bear hot-water bottle . |
| 3 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 4 | For a few minutes we said nothing . |
| 5 | For a few minutes we fought wildly . |
| 6 | For a few minutes we slipped into the hut . |
| 7 | For a few minutes we watched a tree-creeper working his way up the trunk of a tree looking for grubs until Bill the dog , crashing through the undergrowth sniffing for smells , frightened him off . |
| 8 | for a few days we took him up here and all up there ! |
| 9 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
| 10 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 11 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |