Example sentences of "he [adv] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Some patients want no further contact with the would-be therapist after the initial assessment , or agree to see him only a few times . |
2 | Instead , as David Elsworth admits , ‘ with Gold Cup horses giving him only a few pounds , it is asking an awful lot . |
3 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
4 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
5 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
6 | It took him only a few seconds to find the page he wanted . |
7 | Harrison moved out on the starboard wing , had his good look — it took him only a few seconds — returned and took the wheel again . |
8 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
9 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
10 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |