Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 2 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 3 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 4 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 5 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 6 | She made it back to her office and sank into her chair ; but after a few minutes she sat up , combed her hair and decided to go home . |
| 7 | At first she pulled back , but after a few minutes she relaxed a little . |
| 8 | Bella always tries , but after a few minutes she burst into tears and would never go near that room again . |
| 9 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 10 | But after a few notes she stopped and turned round on her stool to face me . |
| 11 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 12 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 13 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 14 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 15 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 16 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 17 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 18 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 19 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 20 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
| 21 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 22 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 23 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
| 24 | In most regions , the assassination tended to unite the badly fragmented Congress Party , but in a few regions it had the opposite result , which caused that party to gain less ground in those states ) . |
| 25 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |