Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 2 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 3 | After a few glasses of the local ‘ dark and stormy ’ cocktail — a mixture of rum and ginger beer — the new Governor might agree with the poet Andrew Marvell who wrote of eternal spring in ‘ an isle so long unknown and yet far kinder than our own ’ . |
| 4 | In any case , it does not detract from my central theme that ‘ traditional ’ chemistry is brought alive by anecdotes and can be great fun , a feat that modern chemistry simply can not match except perhaps in the case of hydroxyethane ( ethanol ) , after a few glasses of which , who cares anyway ? |
| 5 | Ken Neil won the competition on ‘ how many ways to use an egg ’ and , after a few games of bingo , the 50 members enjoyed browsing around the Thrift Shop which had been opened specially because many can not get there on a Wednesday morning . |
| 6 | Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway . |
| 7 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 8 | After a few hours in there the two women became ‘ as quiet and inoffensive beings , as ever breathed ’ . |
| 9 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 10 | He was looking directly at Bridges , but Bridges looked imperturbably back , and after a few moments of heavy silence Kegan coughed and returned to the paper in his hand . |
| 11 | Manville asked , after a few moments of silence . |
| 12 | After a few moments of uncomfortable silence , she said stubbornly , ‘ If you denigrate my life 's work , you shall not profit by it unless you apologize to me , Clare . ’ |
| 13 | After a few moments of apparent concentration , she handed the sticks to Lucien . |
| 14 | After a few moments of confused reflection , he realized Tess had left the room . |
| 15 | After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony . |
| 16 | After a few moments of pandemonium , Shamir thanked the delegates for their show of confidence , declared the convention closed and walked out of the hall , followed by most of his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 17 | After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . " |
| 18 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |
| 19 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 20 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 21 | After a few minutes of stilted , low-voiced conversation , Gladys retreated to her room , and Meryl thankfully resumed her seat in the window . |
| 22 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 23 | After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion . |
| 24 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 25 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 26 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 27 | After a few minutes in the kitchen , the lady placed before me a plate of home-made scones , a dish of jam and a large pot of tea , all delicious . |
| 28 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |
| 29 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 30 | After a few years of gutting chickens for 14 hours a day , they are often thrown out of work by younger and cheaper competitors . |