Example sentences of "[coord] for [art] few [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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1 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
2 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
3 | And for a few weeks I was happy . |
4 | Bellybutton was McIllvanney 's foreman , and for a few seconds I dared hope that he had come to help us , but instead he told me that one of the bareboat thirty-three-footers was in trouble . |
5 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |