Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up .
2 After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn .
3 Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area .
4 He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside .
5 Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics !
6 After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still .
7 After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief .
8 But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move .
9 After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again .
10 I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous .
11 After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to .
12 After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully .
13 But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients .
14 But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature .
15 After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move .
16 After a few struggles I managed to disarm him and get some of the money back .
17 After a few sessions I had to stop .
18 I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there .
19 After a few paces I stopped and looked around .
20 A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above .
21 For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed .
22 For a few moments I felt disappointment .
23 Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him .
24 For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life .
25 Bellybutton was McIllvanney 's foreman , and for a few seconds I dared hope that he had come to help us , but instead he told me that one of the bareboat thirty-three-footers was in trouble .
26 Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast .
27 Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface .
28 I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home .
29 Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember .
30 I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task .
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