Example sentences of "i [be] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
2 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
3 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
4 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
5 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
6 | I 'm a few minutes |
7 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
8 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |