Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 2 | So a few days later I moved to an hotel , the Hotel España ( solo apartamentos ) on the Plaza Españia . |
| 3 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 4 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
| 5 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 6 | The message was delivered to Mr Adams on Sunday , yet only a few hours later he refused to join with the leaders of constitutional parties in condemning the bomb outrage . |
| 7 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 8 | Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy 's calf muscle . |
| 9 | Only a few moments later he is being sympathetic with Cassio — ‘ What , are you hurt , lieutenant ? … |
| 10 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 11 | There are only a few places where he can be , but it is n't until 0500 hours that he is found walking along Unter den Linden , the most famous and beautiful of Berlin 's pre-war streets , having apparently lost contact with his friends . |
| 12 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 13 | ‘ Only a few years ago he criticised me for speaking to the press and said I should never do it again . |
| 14 | Only a few years ago it was a considerable achievement to fly a model helicopter at all . |
| 15 | There were only a few occasions when I remembered the news room falling silent as news came in via satellite . |
| 16 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |
| 17 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 18 | Only a few weeks ago we were trotting the globe with Wim Wenders ' Until the End of the World and Volker Schlöndorff 's Voyager , or rolling along transcontinental rails with Lars Von Trier 's Europa . |
| 19 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 20 | Oh , Frank , only a few weeks ago you said I was far sweeter than all your other pleasures ! |
| 21 | She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again . |
| 22 | Only a few weeks ago I was in such a fog , I would n't have been able to write any of this . |
| 23 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |
| 24 | Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches . |
| 25 | Only a few months earlier he had , as she was soon to discover , been involved in a plot to murder her secretary and musician David Rizzio , believing or half-believing that the two of them were lovers . |
| 26 | After only a few months there I located an even better one on the ground floor of a house at the corner of Jervis and Georgia Streets , not far from the CBC studios . |
| 27 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 28 | MASTER potter Michael Hughes hopes to raise more than just a few laughs when he takes part in a marathon charity event . |
| 29 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 30 | If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family . |