Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments her voice grew louder , and she started to shout at her mother . |
| 2 | For a few moments her still-sleepy eyes refused to focus on the dramatic black handwriting . |
| 3 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 4 | After a few minutes her voice began to grate on Dougal 's ears . |
| 5 | A cat , with her mouth full of seagull feathers , was feebly trying to climb up , but after a few feet her claws lost purchase and she slithered back by gradual stages to the deck . |
| 6 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 7 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 8 | In a few years her shame , and she herself , would be forgotten . |
| 9 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 10 | The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked . |