Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 2 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 3 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 4 | I did n't quite close the door , and after a few moments I could hear her footsteps walking briskly past . |
| 5 | He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside . |
| 6 | After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again . |
| 7 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 8 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 9 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 10 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 11 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 12 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 13 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 14 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 15 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 16 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 17 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 18 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 19 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 20 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 21 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 22 | so like after a few days I can her saying , oh , I 'm gon na have to go , I 'm gon na have to feed dog and they 're having it put down , they 're having it put down . |
| 23 | After a few struggles I managed to disarm him and get some of the money back . |
| 24 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 25 | After a few sessions I had to stop . |
| 26 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 27 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 28 | After a few paces I stopped and looked around . |
| 29 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 30 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |