Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments her voice grew louder , and she started to shout at her mother . |
| 2 | After a few minutes her voice began to grate on Dougal 's ears . |
| 3 | A cat , with her mouth full of seagull feathers , was feebly trying to climb up , but after a few feet her claws lost purchase and she slithered back by gradual stages to the deck . |
| 4 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 5 | After a few days my condition improved , the weather changed dramatically , and I made my way across the cultivated , fertile fields of Normandy . |
| 6 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 7 | At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run . |
| 8 | ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed . |
| 9 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
| 10 | Mr Johnston , who stood on a ‘ Save Our Townlands ’ ticket in the council elections of 1977 , said : ‘ It is one of the few powers which councils have left that they can enforce the format for local addresses . |
| 11 | He is one of the few writers whose books are read and loved by people in the East and the West . |
| 12 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 13 | John Holt ( one of the few authors whose books still seem able to appeal to students despite their inoculation ) writes of a common experience that mirrors mine with the Scottish educational psychologists . |
| 14 | Retirement migration is an important component , but except for a few areas its contribution to population growth has been smaller than that of other age groups , not just pre-retirement moves but also those of younger working age and their families ( Warnes and Law , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ For a few minutes our hearts were in our mouths . |
| 16 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 17 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 18 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 19 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 20 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 21 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 22 | Within a few months his position came under threat from a new direction . |
| 23 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 24 | In a few years their needs were very different , the young one needed to be in bed and the older one wanted to play music with his friends . |
| 25 | In a few years her shame , and she herself , would be forgotten . |
| 26 | He used to say that in a few years his uncle would retire ; then he would be in control . ’ |
| 27 | Scholz was wearing that wise , reflective look that pipe-smokers get or act on the few occasions their pipes are working well . |
| 28 | I 've invited Jack to a few receptions which Clare would have attended , but even so … . ’ |
| 29 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |
| 30 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |