Example sentences of "a few [noun] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | In a few moments they were alone . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
7 | For a few moments she was laughing so much she could n't speak . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
10 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
11 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
12 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
13 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
16 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
17 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
18 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | After a few minutes we were shaking hands . |
21 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
22 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
23 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
24 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
25 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
26 | In a few minutes she was calmer . |
27 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
28 | In a few minutes he was ready . |
29 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
30 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |