Example sentences of "[coord] within a few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 2 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 3 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 4 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 5 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
| 6 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 7 | Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it . |
| 8 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
| 9 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 11 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 12 | He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit . |
| 13 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 14 | But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea . |
| 15 | At first , her face burned and she was often defeated in her purpose but within a few weeks she was indistinguishable from the seasoned bargainers . |
| 16 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
| 17 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
| 18 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
| 19 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 20 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |