Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 3 | Er this is just one that I wanted some stuff and I said to a few people |
| 4 | And I learned after a few weeks that how he got this was There was no weather forecast as we know them now you know on the television . |
| 5 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 6 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 7 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
| 8 | On the telephone , I was greeted with a very friendly and hearty ‘ Well … well … well ! ’ and we chatted for a few minutes as if there had been no break in our contact . |
| 9 | She laughed , and we talked for a few minutes longer . |
| 10 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 11 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 12 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 13 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 14 | ‘ But you parted with a few to find out where I live . |
| 15 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 16 | Not only that , but he went for a few shots , bravely teasing back the initiative from Mushtaq and Waqar . |
| 17 | But it seemed like every few months there 'd be another little trip up . |