Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important . |
| 2 | it 's been uppermost in my mind a few times but the I daresay I would n't go to prison the first time . |
| 3 | I started organising puppy parties for my clients a few months back , using a good dog trainer to co-ordinate the parties and a local church hall as the venue . |
| 4 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
| 5 | After looking out into the daylight , it took my eyes a few seconds to adjust . |
| 6 | What she did n't know , of course , was that I finished my work a few days ahead of that schedule , and was not here when you — in the guise of your sister , ’ he inserted gently , ‘ arrived . ’ |
| 7 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 9 | I had spotted this on my travels a few months previous to this time and had made a mental note to return and search it . |
| 10 | ‘ Simon used to work for my father a few years ago , but he … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Touch my toes a few times first . |
| 12 | This is a , you know , how you should approach change , er , I learnt my lesson a few years ago , because I went on a course , I came back to my office , and thought the world had changed . |
| 13 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 14 | The car Clock had stopped at 11 o'clock , her watch a few minutes after . |
| 15 | They 'd moved to their cottage a few years ago and ran an electrical business in Didcot . |
| 16 | Baxter and Puskas renewed their friendship a few years later in Glasgow when Real Madrid came to play a European Cup against Rangers . |
| 17 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |
| 18 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 19 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 20 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 21 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 22 | The catering department at the Dome Leisure Centre , Doncaster , refitted its kitchens a few years ago and , with its suppliers ' advice , chose equipment which anticipated the five degree temperature requirements . |
| 23 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 24 | They found their spaceship a few minutes later , and soon they were ready to leave the planet . |
| 25 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 26 | The INF treaty , agreed at Washington the previous December , was formally signed by the two leaders on 1 June , following its ratification a few days earlier by the US Senate and by the USSR Supreme Soviet ( the first Soviet rockets were destroyed , to some publicity , in early August ) . |
| 27 | Their argument a few days ago was still hovering at the back of her mind , still had the power , in fact , to make her cringe with shame , and it lent an edge of petulance to all her answers to his questions . |
| 28 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 29 | The enumerator must deliver a schedule to the head of each household ( including caravans , tents , etc. ) in his or her district a few days before census day . |
| 30 | According to Jimmy Johnstone 's very forthright biography , the ‘ horseplay ’ reached its peak a few yards from the Queen 's Hotel when the Leeds and Scotland goalkeeper David Harvey climbed on top of a beach hut and began throwing stones at his team mates . |