Example sentences of "[adj] few words [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He managed to have another few words with Mrs Morgan also , who was looking much stronger . |
| 2 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
| 3 | She passionately wrote these few words to him : |
| 4 | These few words of Bishop Samson make the whole affair a matter of business-like common sense , more in keeping with the way in which government was developing than with Anselm 's grand and simple principles . |
| 5 | However there is psycholinguistic evidence indicating that human listeners also have problems identifying the first few words in an utterance . |
| 6 | Notice the vital few words with the people at the garage , the bank , the booking-office , the doctor 's surgery . |
| 7 | I shall cover our response to the needs of the voluntary sector , of Eastern Europe , of Africa and I shall say a particular few words about the needs of children , the subject which is of course at the very heart of your work . |
| 8 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |