Example sentences of "to the [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friend 's well-known bluntness had been to the fore a few days ago , when she 'd discovered Laura sobbing quietly in her bedroom . |
| 2 | Before they could reach him , however , he was borne aloft like a javelin and carried to the quayside a few yards away where he was dumped unceremoniously into the murky waters to a great cheer from those who were close enough to witness the event . |
| 3 | On a trip to the Dolomites a few years ago , four of us brought three different stoves between us rashly thinking we had all angles covered . |
| 4 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
| 5 | In May 1940 Winchester became adjutant , RE , in 5 Indian Division , with which he went to the Sudan a few months later on active service . |
| 6 | Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times . |
| 7 | It showed again on a second test-firing on 25 January and was finally traced to the manifold a few days later . |
| 8 | I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted . |
| 9 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 10 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |
| 11 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 12 | A black cab drew in to the pavement a few yards ahead of them . |
| 13 | We came to the chute a few days later . |
| 14 | Fortunately she had an order for a full-length wool coat and dress , and worked in happy isolation in the small room at the back of the shop , her mind lingering on the implication of Penry 's invitation as her fingers flew independently to finish the order for a customer due to return to the States a few days later . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I went to the flat a few times . |
| 16 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 17 | Dr Pirnia came to the palace a few days before the departure to say goodbye to the Queen . |
| 18 | On her return to the party a few minutes later , she almost bumped into James , who placed his clammy hands on her bare shoulders and squeezed them . |
| 19 | She saw Ross Aldridge , whom she knew slightly from when he 'd processed her shotgun licence application , and wondered for a moment if the rumour was true about how he and his wife had moved to the area a few months after their baby had died . |
| 20 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 21 | She had Elisa taken to her car to be driven to the house a few streets away . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 23 | The solution sometimes adopted is to send the article to the Attorney-General a few days prior to its intended publication . |
| 24 | In that advocacy , he was subsequently to acknowledge he had been unaware of the problems arising from the Cambridge Board 's maturing plans for such appointments and the issue of providing powers which were to become particularly difficult and threatening to the District a few years later . |
| 25 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 26 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |