Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin . |
| 2 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 3 | It took her a few minutes to realise what it was . |
| 4 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 5 | There will be a few tools needed which wo n't be in your standard tool kit , and the hire of a number of semi-industrial tools will make work that much easier . |
| 6 | ‘ We call ourselves the Unifiers — an inner core of trade unionists who are prepared to take a few risks to get what we must for the majority . |
| 7 | Charisma is that aspect of personality which a few people possess which makes others follow them . |
| 8 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 9 | What she saw brought her upright , but , still foggy with sleep , she took a few seconds to interpret what she saw . |
| 10 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 11 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |