Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dodged past the few remaining couples who still danced , then turned into the supper room . |
| 2 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 3 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 4 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 5 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 6 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 7 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 8 | We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … . |
| 9 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 10 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 11 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 12 | The monastery was borne along on a buoyant prosperity which , while it may have contributed to the dissatisfactions and distractions felt by the few , drew most of its members together in a sense of their importance and independence , and hastened the disappearance of earlier divisions . |
| 13 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 14 | I am afraid he 's the laughing-stock of the court , despised by most and pitied by the few who listen to his constant pleas of innocence . |
| 15 | When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London . |
| 16 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |
| 17 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |