Example sentences of "she [verb] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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1 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
2 | She lay back , her body rigid , as she reviewed the last few catastrophic days of her life . |
3 | An hour later she added the last few remaining sticks and huddled down again . |
4 | Yet she dreaded the next few hours . |
5 | She managed the next few hours without any problems — Marc seemed to be busy . |
6 | She ran the last few yards and was breathing heavily , but more out of anxiety than exhaustion . |
7 | Bernice shivered inside her coat as she ran the last few feet to the stones . |
8 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
9 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |