Example sentences of "first few pages [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 2 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 3 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is rather illuminating to discover that within the first few pages of her book — and before she has even introduced her own work — she peremptorily dismisses the idea that genius is akin to madness . |
| 5 | One common source of distrust of hermeneutics in social science is that the idea of ‘ meaning ’ is so various and elusive , as the first few pages of this chapter make all too plain . |
| 6 | The closest most of us get to Irish culture is a pint of Guinness and the first few pages of Ulysses . |