Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down came another few panes in the glasshouse . |
| 2 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 3 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 4 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |
| 5 | I think I must have known the truth about myself , in some deep part of my mind , when I first read those few pages of your book in my master 's study . |
| 6 | She 'd only had those few hours at The Haven . |
| 7 | As well as the series of long-distance trains which still run through Birmingham , the sub-sector now includes those few trains from the North West to Dover which run through Kensington Olympia in London , and the service between Manchester and Scotland via Preston and the West Coast main line . |
| 8 | They spent those few days in Blackpool and she last saw him as he left for duty from Chester station . |
| 9 | They spent those few days in Blackpool and she last saw him as he left for duty from Chester railway station . |
| 10 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 11 | Even those with many advantages will have precious few opportunities for issuing commands with the expectation that they will actually be executed . |
| 12 | The pain was n't so bad , it was the breathlessness , using all his energy to suck another few seconds of life from a chest that seemed to be wrapped in rusty iron bands . |
| 13 | Sample these few lines from ‘ Destroy Protect And Survive ’ : ‘ We train young men to drop fire from above/Yet their commanding officers wo n't let them write ‘ f— ’ on the side of their aircraft/Because it 's obscene . ’ |
| 14 | She made precious few concessions to the old orthodoxies . |
| 15 | He managed to have another few words with Mrs Morgan also , who was looking much stronger . |
| 16 | It was almost worth all that agony to have these few moments of companionship . |
| 17 | And could anyone imagine that in order to get those few minutes of screen imagery in the can , the three of them inhaled 1O5 real joints of excellent quality Mexican grass ? |
| 18 | We visited Emily at her school in early December , and had another few days in Harrogate , having enjoyed the conference there . |
| 19 | She and her parents , Les and Fran , will have to spend another few months in the US as the youngster receives more treatment . |
| 20 | She passionately wrote these few words to him : |
| 21 | Lake , the 24-year-old from Torquay , who was runner-up to Sarah Loosemore in 1988 , had precious few chances against an opponent in determined and dominant mood . |
| 22 | It leaves precious few clues for anyone in search of lines that trace directly back to Gedge 's own life . |
| 23 | All this leaves precious few sectors for ‘ defensive ’ investors . |