Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen it staggering around on uncertain legs a few mornings before . |
| 2 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 3 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 4 | His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before . |
| 5 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 6 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 7 | She 'd hired a car a few days before , with the trip to the clinic in view . |
| 8 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 9 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 10 | The King complained about the singing of the ‘ Red Flag ’ and the ‘ Marseillaise ’ at the Labour Party meeting in the Albert Hall a few days before . |
| 11 | Dexter smiled to himself , recalling his thoughts in the corridor a few minutes before . |
| 12 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 13 | Offered to the museum for £800 by Hans Calmann , who subsequently lowered the price to £550 as the Committee ‘ felt a little uncertain about the Bust — or rather , I should say whether we should pay up ’ because a bust of the same period ‘ more certainly by Foggini ’ had been purchased by the V&A for £80 a few years before . |
| 14 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |
| 15 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
| 16 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 17 | He remembered how she had reluctantly sat down to play him and a couple of other men at poker a few years before . |
| 18 | He 's lost a lost of weight since I last saw him , being interviewed by Michael Aspel a few months before . |
| 19 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 20 | He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before . |
| 21 | Borg 's disappearance from top tennis , like Harold Wilson 's withdrawal from government a few years before , constitutes one of the great resignation puzzles of modern times . |
| 22 | In the early part of the first coalition he was rather anti-Lloyd George and pro-Asquith , but by December 1916 he was ready for a change and accepted the pro-Lloyd George lead of Bonar Law , who had a little hesitantly made him his parliamentary private secretary a few months before . |
| 23 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 24 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |
| 25 | We had arrived in Uulaa 's system a few moments before , and as we drifted down to planetary speed I 'd contacted Frejji on the comm . |
| 26 | The same kind of inertia had held him prisoner a few seconds before , but common sense made him brush his nonsensical thoughts aside . |
| 27 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 28 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 29 | Macnab showed them a postcard , sent to him by Joyce from Berlin a few days before . |
| 30 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |