Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments of apparent concentration , she handed the sticks to Lucien . |
| 2 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |
| 3 | After a few moments of uncomfortable silence , she said stubbornly , ‘ If you denigrate my life 's work , you shall not profit by it unless you apologize to me , Clare . ’ |
| 4 | After a few moments of confused reflection , he realized Tess had left the room . |
| 5 | He was looking directly at Bridges , but Bridges looked imperturbably back , and after a few moments of heavy silence Kegan coughed and returned to the paper in his hand . |
| 6 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 7 | After a few minutes of stilted , low-voiced conversation , Gladys retreated to her room , and Meryl thankfully resumed her seat in the window . |
| 8 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
| 9 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 10 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 11 | They grew with his reading of Frazer who described the ‘ Burnt Land of Lydia ’ contrasting with the surrounding verdure and marvelled ( in the conclusion of The Dying God ) at ‘ what may be called the Australian spring ’ where ‘ the sandy and stony wilderness , over which the silence and desolation of death appear to brood , is suddenly , after a few days of torrential rain , transformed into a landscape smiling with verdure ’ . |
| 12 | Too stunned to be furious , Maggie sat and after a few seconds of close and silent scrutiny Devlin Parnham sat too , facing her across a magnificent Persian rug , with the fire banked as high as if it were mid-winter . |
| 13 | After a few seconds of awkward introductions , Zohra excused herself with a promise to be down for cocoa at the usual time , then led Harry upstairs . |
| 14 | After a few weeks of relative calm — the ‘ phoney war ’ — chauvinism was revived by the German invasion of Norway . |
| 15 | ‘ No-one would go to the trouble to devise such an imposture , and kill at least once , probably twice , to maintain it , just for the possibility of a few snippets of military information . |
| 16 | Edward , school apart , was living a much more exciting life at the ramshackle , free-and-easy household of a friend , and exploring the common around his home in ever-increasing circles in the company of a few youths of similar tastes . |
| 17 | Although the prevalence of a few types of physical impairments is higher among males , many of the largest subgroups of older disabled people contain more women than men . |
| 18 | Free fatty acids were then eluted three times with methanol acidified to pH 3 by the addition of a few drops of acetic acid . |
| 19 | Outside the wind grew even more savage and we cut short the one doomed attempt to raise the tent , retreating to the truck for a few minutes of poor slumber . |
| 20 | Thankfully , I handed over my pens to Rosemary so that she could finish plotting the latest chart , and escaped outside for a few breaths of fresh air . |
| 21 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 22 | Sometimes we need to reflect publicly , sometimes to provide space for a few moments of private reflection — this might mean the children sit quietly alone while the teacher asks questions which they respond to in their thoughts , or the reflection might take the form of a diary , or perhaps an " emotional map " charting the highs and lows of a journey/adventure/exploration . |
| 23 | It would be madness to throw it all away for a few moments of nerve-storming passion . |
| 24 | All for a few inches of bloody zipper ! |
| 25 | Let me just run through a few features of American political life which make it rather different to er to our own er sceptred isle . |
| 26 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 27 | Colour is even more limited than before , and the palette for the succeeding years is established : some of the paintings are in earth colours , greys and blacks , with a few touches of dull green , while others are in softer grey-blues and buffs . |
| 28 | The Chorleywood Bread Process , introduced in 1961 , replaces a long ‘ proving ’ with a few minutes of intense mechanical mixing . |
| 29 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
| 30 | He satisfied himself with a few words of hurried consultation during a House of Commons debate . |