Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 2 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 3 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
| 6 | I 'm a few minutes |
| 7 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
| 8 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 9 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 10 | Women her age usually give up sex — she 's a few months older than me , you know . |
| 11 | When she 's a few months older Thia will be allowed in the same field as the farm 's other miniature , Carlsberg , a stallion . |
| 12 | She was a few strides away , I was taking a breath to shout a warning , when unexpectedly — by some wary instinct — she looked up , and halted . |
| 13 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 14 | ‘ She has very little regard for other people 's property and other people 's lives now , which was n't how she was a few years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ We adopted her when she was a few years old but we had a difference of opinion and she left home , ’ said Mr Harrison , a policeman . |
| 16 | She was n't booked with us , she was a few weeks early , and that 's why I could n't bring her to mind straight away . ’ |
| 17 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
| 18 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
| 19 | The applicant was employed by a company from 1959 to 1987 until she was dismissed by reason of redundancy when she was a few months over 60 . |
| 20 | But we are a few guys , not interested in politics , who will play golf with anybody as 50 per cent individuals and 50 per cent representatives of our country because when you stand on the 1st tee , they call … |
| 21 | We are a few yards away from the Palace Pier and in an ideal position for all attractions including the Marina ; Conference Centre and ‘ The Lanes ’ . |
| 22 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
| 23 | Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was . |
| 24 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
| 25 | Not until we were a few yards away from the perch could we turn , hold our arms out and release the jesses so that the bird could fly the rest of the way . |
| 26 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
| 27 | Kittens first purr while suckling when they are a few days old . |
| 28 | Okay so they 're a few options to try as regards the coding |
| 29 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 30 | That evening at dinner in the hotel they were a few tables away , just out of earshot but plainly visible . |