Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 2 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 3 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 4 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |
| 5 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 6 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 7 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 8 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 9 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 10 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 11 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 12 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 13 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 14 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 15 | It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . |
| 16 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 17 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 18 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 19 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 20 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 21 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 22 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 23 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 24 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 25 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 26 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 27 | ‘ Just a few things before we start out . |
| 28 | The emerging feelings bubbled to the surface in the unlikely setting of the Route 66 pub in Darlington on Friday , February 7 just a few days after they met . |
| 29 | Kirstie , 38 , who miscarried a Down 's Syndrome baby two years ago , was handed William just a few days after he was born in October . |
| 30 | Our grief at his passing , just a few days before we could celebrate with him his eightieth birthday , is only diminished by the knowledge that he left us knowing that the fruits of his inspired leadership and labours are imperishable . |