Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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1 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
2 | The few living ones he had seen held only despair . |
3 | He spent his first summer from Cambridge in leisurely visits to his family , staying first with his brother Edward in Salisbury then travelling to Ottery for one of the few lengthy returns he had made since childhood . |
4 | The few brief interviews he gave to journalists were terse , and could be described as defensive . |
5 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
6 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ said Dexter , through a mouthful of chicken tikka masalla , one of the few Indian dishes he could stomach , ‘ there might just be something to this drugs thing . ’ |
7 | He did not volunteer any further suggestions but took her to one of the few French restaurants he knew in Soho , where hopefully she would not be reminded of the man she loved . |
8 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
9 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
10 | In a few short months he had changed , his hair was greyer , his face more drawn and the gold Albert hung loosely around his once corpulent stomach . |
11 | He returned an hour later with a few stunted bushes he had managed to prise from the rock . |
12 | After a few false starts he found his rhythm and everyone began to clap in time . |
13 | For a few brief moments he reared and plunged on the bed , grunting like an animal , until his lust emptied itself into her . |
14 | For a few brief moments he 'd been able to forget the room and the bizarre encampment and Hennessy at his elbow , and he 'd conversed in a language that came to him now almost as readily as his first ; he 'd conversed with a dark-eyed alien . |
15 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |