Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
2 | At his lunch break a few days later Mr Wolski took his sandwiches and sat on the benches opposite the eagle and looked at her . |
3 | Mr Dixon , friend of Mrs Murphy and conductor , in his spare time , of the amateur orchestra , had accidentally launched Hank on his writing career a few years earlier by encouraging him to enter an essay competition sponsored by a service club . |
4 | Ademar had become the undisputed head of the Taillefer family after the death of his brother William a few years earlier . |
5 | There he sat at home on his Oxfordshire farm every few months , behaving like a one-man Greek chorus , informing us ( he had every intention even then of publishing well short of the thirty-year limit ) of the vicissitudes of the British Constitution . |
6 | You can help this fall in body temperature by being inactive all evening ( sitting in front of the television ? ) , but if you are quite active physically then you can maintain a sense of comfort if you turn down your room thermostat a few degrees in the evening or if you roll up your sleeves and aid heat loss this way . |