Example sentences of "his [noun] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his decision a few months later to join the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service as its first chief executive was probably enough to stupefy many of his peers . |
| 2 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 3 | The fourth member of the farmhouse group was led blinking out of his bedroom a few seconds later , a thin , scrawny young man with lank hair . |
| 4 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 5 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 6 | After Diana 's marriage to Charles , her father , Earl Spencer , always created a festival of fun for his grandchildren a few days early . |
| 7 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 8 | Mr Phillips can neither sell his house in Cardiff , Glamorgan , nor find a suitable new one in Swansea , where he took up his post a few months ago . |
| 9 | He called me into his room a few moments ago and said he was leaving . |
| 10 | During my short conversation with the Colonel , I was being observed rather suspiciously by three of his Officers a few feet away , sitting on top of their slit trenches performing their ablutions . |
| 11 | In April 1820 Green 's doctor , Richard Scambler , and his prating wife are ‘ replete with folly ’ , and in writing his obituary a few months later Green ‘ can find very little to praise . ’ |
| 12 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
| 13 | His address a few days later to the Central Committee in Moscow balanced these remarks with more familiar declarations about the ‘ further strengthening of the positions of existing socialism ’ and growing opposition to the ‘ reactionary , aggressive forces of imperialism ’ . |
| 14 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 15 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |
| 16 | The boy raised his arm a few inches higher . |
| 17 | Hill House , the new home which Harry Pascoe had had built for himself and his family a few years before , stood in solitary grandeur on the high ground out towards Townsend 's Farm . |
| 18 | Corbett leaned over , putting his hands on the arms of the chair , his face a few inches away from de Craon 's . |