Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the first few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No diet is easy and I found the first few days hard , but by the end of the first week my skin became clearer , my nails grew stronger and my hair was healthy and shining . |
| 2 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 3 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 4 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
| 5 | He watched the first few matches tee off , then joined the trickle of early spectators following the Red route round the course . |
| 6 | When the studio manager asked him to say something to check the microphone levels , he recited the first few lines of The Wreck of the Deutschland with appropriate gestures . |