Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 2 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 3 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 4 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 5 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 6 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 7 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 8 | We can supply them from stock and shall be despatching them to you within the next few days . |
| 9 | Mr Rich will contact you within the next few days . |
| 10 | If I do n't manage to contact you in the next few days , I 'll still send these questionnaires in the hope of a splendidly useful response . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 12 | I had it on my schedule to see quite a lot of you over the next few weeks , Folly . |
| 13 | I will probably contact many of you over the next few months to try to establish the working conditions in various areas and develop future strategies accordingly . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 15 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 16 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 17 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 18 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 19 | She pretty well knew how things had stood between Father and me in the last few years . |
| 20 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 21 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 22 | Do n't miss them over the next few months — in fact , you can ensure that you get them , and get a free thermometer , by filling in the form on page 23 . |
| 23 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 24 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |
| 26 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 27 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 28 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 29 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 30 | After the meeting a lot of people wanted to talk to Karen and ask her about the last few days . |