Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences . |
| 2 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 3 | ‘ But when the young folk of the dale were given a few hours off we certainly made the most of it . |
| 4 | There are also a few cases where we can roughly predict the location of a particular error . |
| 5 | And a few lines later we read : ‘ A master who turns out his ass or his dog because the animal can no longer earn its keep manifests a small mind ’ ( 1963 : 240 ) . |
| 6 | A few minutes later we were in Delhi . |
| 7 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 8 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 9 | Farmer Nash was n't at the market , and a few minutes later we saw his angry red face above the wall on the far side of the field . |
| 10 | On the surface of his mind lies the contrast between a trivial though tormenting fear and a monstrous scheme ; and beneath that contrast appears a positive contradiction : for a few sentences earlier we have been told ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ . |
| 11 | It is a narrow escape , but a few chapters later we find Abraham doing it all over again , this time in the city of Gerar ( ch. |
| 12 | Surely you can tap the chairman for a few quid so we can buy someone half-decent . |
| 13 | A few days later we heard a reading room receptionist telephoning the ground floor police desk to ask if she needed her umbrella to go to lunch . |
| 14 | Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo . |
| 15 | A few days later we climbed Toubkal though . |
| 16 | Being a glutton for punishment , a few days later we rounded it off by doing the Danube Knee bend towards Budapest . |
| 17 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 18 | I sent Kassimi with a letter to the Governor at Goba , and a few days later we received an apology for our treatment and permission to continue our journey . |
| 19 | A few days later we were on passage up the east coast to Scotland and the North Sea Oil scene once more — after the Lord Mayor 's show ! |
| 20 | ‘ A few days later we learnt Whitton had sent a secret message to the Caliph . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ A few years ago we realised we had lost our way , ’ says The Economist UK marketing manager Chantal Hughes . |
| 22 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 23 | A few years ago we had rows all the time about politics but more recently we kept off the subject most of the time . |
| 24 | A few years ago we bought a company called who manufacture all the filters that we use . |
| 25 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |
| 26 | ‘ A few years ago we thought the Butter Market could have been made into a little museum but it would have been difficult to cross the roads into it . ’ |
| 27 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 28 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 29 | Then yeah well then things a few years back we 'd got archway , you see , and we used to tie the bullocks in the archway . |
| 30 | ‘ There are a few places where we might meet one such … . ’ |