Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [subord] he " 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 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 5 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 6 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 7 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Police released a video of the victim 's last Christmas , just a few days before he died … detectives visited every home in Russells Water … the village pond was searched by police frogmen … mounted police were brought in to search the grounds of a nearby National Trust property . |
| 15 | Just a few days before he was due to start the second year of his course , his body was discovered by fire crews in the remains of a barn fire . |
| 16 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 17 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 18 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 19 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |