Example sentences of "just a [det] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
2 | ‘ Just a few things before we start out . |
3 | The emerging feelings bubbled to the surface in the unlikely setting of the Route 66 pub in Darlington on Friday , February 7 just a few days after they met . |
4 | Kirstie , 38 , who miscarried a Down 's Syndrome baby two years ago , was handed William just a few days after he was born in October . |
5 | Our grief at his passing , just a few days before we could celebrate with him his eightieth birthday , is only diminished by the knowledge that he left us knowing that the fruits of his inspired leadership and labours are imperishable . |
6 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
7 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
8 | Police released a video of the victim 's last Christmas , just a few days before he died … detectives visited every home in Russells Water … the village pond was searched by police frogmen … mounted police were brought in to search the grounds of a nearby National Trust property . |
9 | Just a few days before he was due to start the second year of his course , his body was discovered by fire crews in the remains of a barn fire . |
10 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
11 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
12 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
13 | Her mother died when Mary was eighteen , just a few weeks after she had married and moved away from home . |
14 | ‘ Just a few weeks after I left the ship it was sunk by our own Typhoon fighters with the loss of 56 lives , ’ said Mr Connor , whose son , Paul , saw front-line action as a medic in the Gulf War . |
15 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
16 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
17 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |