Example sentences of "[coord] [art] few [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
| 2 | Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’ |
| 3 | We still use the old byre for milking and the few cows I keep do n't call for a new mechanical milker . |
| 4 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |
| 5 | No one can deny that thanks to Champollion and a few others we have succeeded in reading Egyptian hieroglyphics and that we know , in most cases , what they mean . |
| 6 | He would imagine the dead bodies of some pop stars he had admired , his mother , and a few pets he had owned as a boy . |
| 7 | Sam spent the next morning poking his broom everywhere it was wanted and a few places it was n't until he had swept up several titbits of very interesting information . |
| 8 | And every few hours I 'd get more shots . |
| 9 | Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch . |
| 10 | And there were other things ; saliva drooled from her lips and every few seconds she gave a retching cough . |
| 11 | But the few houses they passed seemed to have their doors locked and bolted and their windows shuttered . |
| 12 | I remember once , yeah it was like that , yeah that 's right , not one , but a few times I used to get on the train from Runcorn to Liverpool , I had an address to go to in Liverpool , rough directions how to get there , to pick up a suit or to pick up a fitting , you know you 'd get the , the different |
| 13 | He was reading a newspaper , but every few minutes he looked up from it , to talk to me . |