Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 2 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 3 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 4 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 5 | Can you give me just a few moments ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 7 | Well you 've heard her on phone , she 's phoned you quite a few times . |
| 8 | Before , it gives you quite a few clues to what you may be asked and will help you to present yourself properly and to prepare your answers . |
| 9 | Forty pounds for those , they cost me about a hundred pounds those you know , the materials |
| 10 | They cost me about a hundred pounds altogether with the materials |
| 11 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 12 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 13 | Some patients want no further contact with the would-be therapist after the initial assessment , or agree to see him only a few times . |
| 14 | Instead , as David Elsworth admits , ‘ with Gold Cup horses giving him only a few pounds , it is asking an awful lot . |
| 15 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 16 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
| 17 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 18 | It took him only a few seconds to find the page he wanted . |
| 19 | Harrison moved out on the starboard wing , had his good look — it took him only a few seconds — returned and took the wheel again . |
| 20 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 21 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 22 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
| 23 | Juliet felt quite pleased about this ; the girl was her own age , twenty , and , although she 'd seen her only a few times , she felt drawn to her cheerful , intelligent personality . |
| 24 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |
| 25 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |
| 26 | She moved soon after that to Thetford in your East Anglia and I was able to phone her there a few times . |
| 27 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 28 | Banks and securities firms lag behind their rivals elsewhere in innovation , and have lost what competitive edge Japan 's relatively low interest rates and strong currency gave them abroad a few years ago . |
| 29 | It took me quite a few years to realize that my timing was terrible — the repercussions of being born then were enormous . |
| 30 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |