Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 2 | The evening was enjoyed by all , with Sony requesting a return match , confident that with a few changes they can win the cup back . |
| 3 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 4 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 5 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 6 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 7 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 8 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 9 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said briefly , and for a few moments they studied each other . |
| 11 | The strange , rank smell was stronger than ever and after a few moments they all heard a heavy movement close by . |
| 12 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 13 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 14 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 15 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 17 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 18 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 20 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 21 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
| 22 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |