Example sentences of "[pron] few [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was surprised to hear that he was married but I wanted a change of surroundings so I packed my few belongings and went with him there and then . |
| 2 | Anger gave her the strength to pack her few belongings and by the time Ellen — red-eyed and in tears — came to say that the conveyance was at the door , there was no sign left that Ruth had ever inhabited the room . |
| 3 | All of this has been achieved with an inevitability which few batsmen since Bradman have been able to suggest , and in 111 Tests at the end of the 1989–90 series he was just ten runs short of 8,000 at an average of 51 . |
| 4 | MacQuillan was draining the paper of its few assets and sending the money to one of his companies in the United States called HM Supplies . ’ |
| 5 | They gathered up their few possessions and almost melted into the wood , close to the river . |
| 6 | Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water , put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night . |
| 7 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 8 | That is what they like to do with their few acres and it is of some benefit to us . |
| 9 | Even the tinkers camped nearby were packing up their few belongings and preparing to leave . |
| 10 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
| 11 | This news was passed to his people , who burned his few possessions and redistributed his livestock . |
| 12 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 13 | Such meteorites give us few clues as to the prevalence of life on other worlds ; however , members of a different class of meteorites — the carbonaceous chondritescontain organic chemicals , leading us to believe that the building blocks of life must be fairly commonplace . |