Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 2 | His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 3 | But it is the most distinctive characteristic of an observant or well educated mind to bring unity to what would otherwise be a meaningless scatter of seemingly random and unrelated phenomena , and I bow to few for want of intellect . |
| 4 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |
| 5 | They arrive with few belongings , haunted by events left behind . |
| 6 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 7 | It is a seeking rather than a finding , and it ends with few certitudes . |
| 8 | Yet he started with few political debts , and seemed to offer Alabamians a chance to become part of that shining land , the New South . |