Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [adv] they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's go into the garden , ’ he said tersely , and a few moments later they were gliding along the path that wound down to the river 's edge , their way lit by a bright moon that stretched a blue path towards them across the water . |
| 3 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 4 | They found swimming normally impossible and a few hours later they died . |
| 5 | A few decades later they became even more remote when they passed with the whole of Mesopotamia under the control of the Parthians . |
| 6 | A few minutes later they were starting up Heymouth Brae , the road that connected Heymouth with the summit and world beyond . |
| 7 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |
| 8 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 9 | A few minutes later they were given a direct order to go to bed — and if you disobey a direct order you 're instantly put on report . |
| 10 | The following ‘ Arkansas Stomp ’ gets things going , though , and when a few minutes later they deliver a truly rocking ‘ Dateless Night ’ a great night seems in store . |
| 11 | A few minutes later they came out onto the bright and still busy Lower Road . |
| 12 | A few minutes later they were approaching the outskirts of the town . |
| 13 | A few minutes later they had reached the main road and were heading through a clear November evening towards the north side of the spectacular Cornish peninsula . |
| 14 | The following ‘ Arkansas Stomp ’ gets things going , though , and when a few minutes later they deliver a truly rocking ‘ Dateless Night ’ a great night seems in store . |
| 15 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 16 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 17 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 18 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 19 | A few days later they were all back at Siwa , somewhat disappointed . |
| 20 | A few days later they would both again be involved in an attack on a convoy , where one merchantman was seen to list and pour black smoke after suffering hits from Dennis ' bombs . |
| 21 | They backed off that time , but a few days later they tried to invade the island . |
| 22 | A few days later they signed identical " non-exclusive occupation " agreements which provided that each of them had to pay equal monthly payments . |
| 23 | Just a few days later they recovered part of a body from a lake in surrey . |
| 24 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 25 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 26 | These are the new boys on the stylish restaurant scene — a few years ago they were few and far between . |
| 27 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 28 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 29 | A few weeks later they were taken away from Pushkin , away from St Petersburg and the European side of Russia where they had many supporters . |
| 30 | We can reveal exclusively that when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were in London a few weeks ago they went shopping for baby clothes . |