Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’
2 Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores .
3 It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door .
4 After Diana 's marriage to Charles , her father , Earl Spencer , always created a festival of fun for his grandchildren a few days early .
5 I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published !
6 During my short conversation with the Colonel , I was being observed rather suspiciously by three of his Officers a few feet away , sitting on top of their slit trenches performing their ablutions .
7 Despite being normally mesmerised by the subject of the early Renaissance artists , on this occasion I was grateful to see the professor stacking up his papers a few minutes before the lecture was scheduled to end .
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