Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] he [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
2 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
3 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
4 | For a few moments he was content to hold her , then the solar spun before Isabel 's vision as she was lifted into fitzAlan 's arms . |
5 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
6 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
7 | For a few seconds he was too shocked to speak and Rebecque assumed that the silence merely expressed Sharpe 's horror at being ordered to a ball , but then the Rifleman exploded with his news . |
8 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
9 | Within a few seconds he was dead . |
10 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
11 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
12 | Within a few days he was a pitiful sight , white-faced with huge puffy red-rimmed eyes , his thin hair plastered to his head with sweat and the comfortable roundness of his baby tummy melted away . |
13 | Within a few months he was teaching full-time . |
14 | In a few minutes he was ready . |