Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] few [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the debate of the first few days concerned the use of Latin in the liturgy , but the debate itself of course took place in Latin . |
| 2 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 3 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 4 | All the emotional turmoil and excitement of the outbreak of war , all the long drawn out details of my training , the thrills of flying and the fear of death , all the bustle and anticipation of the last few days had ended in this , in my standing alone on a slushy path in the late afternoon with absolutely nothing whatever to do . |
| 5 | Tina was absolutely furious now , but the extraordinary events of the last few days had increased Jack 's confidence and he refused to be put off . |
| 6 | He felt suddenly light , as though the burden of the last few days had suddenly lifted from his shoulders . |
| 7 | The events of the last few days had made Charles forget about Jacqui 's flat being done over , but inside it the evidence was all too clear . |
| 8 | The party leadership wanted to ban all strikes because it is terrified of an upsurge in Russian and Ukrainian working-class militancy which , it correctly realises , could be more dangerous to the regime than all the ethnic disturbances of the last few years combined . |
| 9 | Even the stress of the past few hours had not removed the memories of his betrayal . |
| 10 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 11 | She threaded her hands through his hair and kissed him back , and suddenly all the pent-up emotion of the past few weeks rushed up to engulf her . |
| 12 | That had always been the constitutional position , he said , but the big demonstrations of the past few days had proved that he had a popular mandate too . |
| 13 | The anxieties and misgivings of the past few days disappeared as though they had never been , as Johnny kissed her and touched her and told her of his need for her ; of his despair when she had not come to him . |
| 14 | He made over forty transcriptions of the sonnets ‘ as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard ’ , and in his own poetic experiments of the next few years found an important model in the work of the now-forgotten Wiltshire priest . |