Example sentences of "[verb] the few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cramming her worn , out-moded bonnet on her head , she stuffed the few belongings she had unpacked back into the portmanteau . |
| 2 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 3 | Intrigued , the aliens monitored the few lyrics they could hear rising up from this outdoor roller ritual . |
| 4 | William Horsley , 83 , was punched and kicked by the thug who snatched the few pounds he had on him . |
| 5 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 6 | ( 24 ) He put a hand under her elbow and helped her stumble the few steps she had to take . |
| 7 | He noticed that someone had moved the few horses they had managed to round up , and sent two men to find out where they had been taken . |
| 8 | I turned it over , glanced at the Hungarian stamp , and read the few words I had scribbled to Stephanie , only three weeks earlier . |
| 9 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 10 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 11 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 12 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
| 13 | But most big stores admit they dare n't put prices up for fear of losing the few customers they have . |
| 14 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 15 | It did n't take her long to pack the few clothes she would need , even though her mind was far away in the past . |
| 16 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 17 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 18 | In fact , however , he adapts the few terms he does borrow to fit his case , rather than forcing his view of narrative to comply strictly with linguistic principles . |