Example sentences of "[conj] [art] few [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
| 2 | He said that the few holes they had dug and refilled would not affect his crop and , more importantly , they were the best ‘ scarecrows ’ he 'd ever known ! |
| 3 | I could tell you many tales of great joy and hope , but I could also give you far worse than the few examples I have mentioned here . |
| 4 | He was seated at the back of the court , initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets , but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her . |
| 5 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 6 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 7 | Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’ |
| 8 | We still use the old byre for milking and the few cows I keep do n't call for a new mechanical milker . |
| 9 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |
| 10 | No one can deny that thanks to Champollion and a few others we have succeeded in reading Egyptian hieroglyphics and that we know , in most cases , what they mean . |
| 11 | He would imagine the dead bodies of some pop stars he had admired , his mother , and a few pets he had owned as a boy . |
| 12 | Sam spent the next morning poking his broom everywhere it was wanted and a few places it was n't until he had swept up several titbits of very interesting information . |
| 13 | Whereas up until a few months they were thinking of closing the engineering department |
| 14 | And every few hours I 'd get more shots . |
| 15 | Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch . |
| 16 | And there were other things ; saliva drooled from her lips and every few seconds she gave a retching cough . |
| 17 | But the few houses they passed seemed to have their doors locked and bolted and their windows shuttered . |
| 18 | I remember once , yeah it was like that , yeah that 's right , not one , but a few times I used to get on the train from Runcorn to Liverpool , I had an address to go to in Liverpool , rough directions how to get there , to pick up a suit or to pick up a fitting , you know you 'd get the , the different |
| 19 | He was reading a newspaper , but every few minutes he looked up from it , to talk to me . |
| 20 | Once in place there is very little movement and although two lenses are heavier than once , after a few runs you hardly notice the difference . |