Example sentences of "only a few [noun pl] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 2 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 3 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 4 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 5 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 6 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 7 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 8 | IT WAS with great shock that we heard the sad news that had died in hospital on Friday , May 21 , only a few weeks before he was due to retire . |
| 9 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 10 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |