Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [subord] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 4 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 5 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 6 | Her mother died when Mary was eighteen , just a few weeks after she had married and moved away from home . |