Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 2 | For the few minutes he was trapped there he could feel the pull of the ocean on his legs . |
| 3 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 4 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 5 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 6 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 7 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 8 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 9 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 10 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 11 | But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea . |
| 12 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
| 13 | For a few moments he was content to hold her , then the solar spun before Isabel 's vision as she was lifted into fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 14 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
| 15 | For a few moments she was laughing so much she could n't speak . |
| 16 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |
| 17 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 18 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 19 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
| 20 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 21 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 22 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 23 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 24 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 25 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 26 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 27 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 28 | After a few minutes we were shaking hands . |
| 29 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 30 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |