Example sentences of "[pron] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I showed my few pages to Shelley , he urged me to develop the story at greater length , and to underline the main idea more powerfully . |
| 2 | My few meetings with Basil were all at Woolley Hall . |
| 3 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 4 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 5 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was because her few visits to Sleightholmedale had been fleeting or was it perhaps , George wondered , because she knew how overwhelmed they would feel if they knew the truth . |
| 7 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 8 | She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column . |
| 9 | While Thérèse watched , Léonie hung her few clothes in the wardrobe . |
| 10 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 11 | Her few days in Monaco , relatively untroubled by the Press , not even the paparazzi bothering her , were at an end . |
| 12 | She had added a large floppy white collar bought in Spaxton , and one of her few pieces of jewellery — a Victorian cameo on a gold chain . |
| 13 | She turned away to strip the rumpled bed , then straightened the room and packed her few belongings in her bag , feeling more reluctant by the minute to face Penry in the cold light of day . |
| 14 | The girl 's rigid fingers had been prised from her handbag and Doyle 's hands , gloved , were spreading out its few contents on a plastic sheet laid on the bonnet of the car . |
| 15 | The furious dad packed his daughter and their few possessions into his 12-year-old Toyota Corona … and moved into the car park at council headquarters in Cromer , Norfolk . |
| 16 | Some of them will be practising meditation exercises before they swoop down the ramp from a platform to begin their few minutes of profound torture . |
| 17 | Certainly for the American clearinghouses it is one of their few sources of finance , and again it also serves to maintain them as focal points for information . |
| 18 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 19 | ’ And as he and Kraal continued to talk old Minch quietly dropped down to her shelter and took up the food there , listening to their few memories of the world outside . |
| 20 | They have both been to school and like to speak their few words of English when their elders are not looking . ) |
| 21 | CUT AND THRUST Hughes & Kettner Attax/CF-200 Rack Adding to the mind-boggling maze of equipment available in the never-ending search for the best compact rack setup , Hughes & Kettner add in their few pfennigs worth … |
| 22 | The people of the hamlet , sensing what destruction would follow the coming of these soldiers , were packing their few belongings into the farm cart . |
| 23 | They may pay a high price for their few years of glory with injury problems in later life and will probably never enjoy the relative prosperity of their first working years again . |
| 24 | Sununu 's abrasive and often arrogant personal style won him few friends during his three-year tenure at the White House . |
| 25 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 26 | In his few remarks on clause 56 , the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East assumed that it referred to British Rail . |
| 27 | He put his few clothes in a neat pile on the bed and then looked round for something in which to carry them . |
| 28 | The old man 's come out — probably the old lady first with a bundle , and the old man 'd come out with his few possessions in a red handkerchief tied up . |
| 29 | In one of his few appearances for the junior teams at Preston somebody threw the ball at him and said : ‘ You play soccer , you have a go . ’ |
| 30 | There are countless stories about his enthusiasm for trains , from his few moments on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman to David Tweedie 's interview for a job at TMcL largely spent in discussing a mutual interest in the LNER . |