Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 2 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 3 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 4 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 5 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
| 6 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 7 | For a few second I was n't sure which side had won . |
| 8 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 9 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 10 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 11 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |
| 12 | For a few seconds I was left shell shocked but I was quickly brought to my senses after seeing the broken rig . |
| 13 | And for a few weeks I was happy . |
| 14 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
| 15 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 16 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |
| 17 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |