Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 2 | Her fingers stroked my balls and her lips slid on my penis and in a few minutes , free to call her what I wished , I pulled her down and mounted her . |
| 3 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 4 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 5 | A letter from G. Espin to Councillor Fraser re the waste of public money in erecting a new wire fence on the footpath between Baberton Mains Estate and Juniper Green and in a few days ripping it out and replacing it with a chestnut type wooden fence . |
| 6 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 7 | Eventually James Wyllie married Mrs. Kay 's sister and after a few years the Wyllie family took over the firm , retaining the name , Andrew Kay & Company . |
| 8 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 9 | Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The tub is kept in a warm place and within a few days is crawling with worms . |
| 13 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 14 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
| 15 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 16 | He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love . |
| 17 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 18 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 19 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 20 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 21 | You 'll read that sort of round and round a few times before you get it straight in your head what 's |
| 22 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 23 | He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside . |
| 24 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 25 | Each visit guaranteed he would leave behind some of his property and after a few weeks we 'd accumulated his record player , eight boxes of books and his Rupert Bear hot-water bottle . |
| 26 | No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent . |
| 27 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 28 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
| 29 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 30 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |