Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 2 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 3 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
| 4 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
| 5 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
| 6 | Wearing breathing apparatus they were a few feet into the building when overhead piping collapsed , trapping them . |
| 7 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
| 8 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 9 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 10 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 11 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |
| 12 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 13 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |