Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few [noun] i " in BNC.
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1 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
2 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
3 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
4 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
5 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | And for a few weeks I was happy . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
11 | I did n't quite close the door , and after a few moments I could hear her footsteps walking briskly past . |
12 | He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside . |
13 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
14 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
19 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
20 | Jack ‘ I 'll be retiring soon ’ Duncan has finally gone and in a few weeks I shall also have a clear desk and be on my way to Viewforth , Stirling to take up my appointment as Director of Technical Services in Central Region . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
23 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
24 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
25 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
26 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |