Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 2 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 3 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 4 | When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London . |
| 5 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 6 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 7 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 8 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 9 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 10 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 11 | We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … . |
| 12 | Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ? |
| 13 | He dodged past the few remaining couples who still danced , then turned into the supper room . |
| 14 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 15 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |