Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 2 | I had few secrets from her . |
| 3 | Hardly more than a village , the latter possessed no more wealth than any sizeable one and no distinctive characteristics ; most of the population of the huge parish was scattered among hamlets , locally called ‘ yelds ’ , which showed few signs of industrial growth . |
| 4 | By his very vigour , which left few corners of Indian life uninspected or untouched , Curzon produced disquiet ; and by his partition of Bengal , pushed through on its administrative merits with Olympian — the word always comes up with respect to Curzon — disregard for risk , he spectacularly increased the political consciousness of the Bengali middle classes . |
| 5 | She made few demands on her parents but sat quietly , playing with an orange in a plastic mug . |
| 6 | ‘ Chapman , who gave few words of praise and fewer of blame , inspired awe and respect , rather than fear . |
| 7 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 8 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 9 | She had few regrets in leaving the house . |
| 10 | At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident . |
| 11 | The rooms he opened for her had few signs of childish occupation . |
| 12 | They had few friends in France , and without them the dazzling night life meant nothing . |
| 13 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 14 | as indeed they were in 1922–23 , but they had few prospects under coalition . |
| 15 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 16 | Otherwise he made few changes in personnel . |
| 17 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 18 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 19 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 20 | He obtained few commissions for public buildings because , after his early success , he declined to enter the competitions through which , in his day , the architects of many of these were chosen ; but he acquired connections with the landed and wealthy , for several of whom he designed country houses . |
| 21 | In common with most of his contemporaries , he comprehended few methods by which governments could affect the total of demand . |
| 22 | Because of his betrayal of the Decembrists in 1825 and his long identification with the regime of Nicholas I , he had few friends on the left of the political spectrum who could advise him on the way in which emancipation should proceed . |
| 23 | With such experiences of life it would be no wonder if he had few scruples about how he got what he wanted . |
| 24 | In fact he had few qualifications for great office . |
| 25 | In the earlier part of his career Beecham was a strong supporter of contemporary British composers , but he left few recordings of their music , except in the case of Delius , of course . |