Example sentences of "his [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his decision a few months later to join the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service as its first chief executive was probably enough to stupefy many of his peers . |
| 2 | These remarks were made by a Unit General Manager reflecting on his experience a few months after WFP was published . |
| 3 | He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times , breathing deeply . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
| 6 | The fourth member of the farmhouse group was led blinking out of his bedroom a few seconds later , a thin , scrawny young man with lank hair . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 9 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 10 | After Diana 's marriage to Charles , her father , Earl Spencer , always created a festival of fun for his grandchildren a few days early . |
| 11 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 12 | Doone clicked his pen a few times , then at the bottom wrote Lewis Everard . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | Mr Phillips can neither sell his house in Cardiff , Glamorgan , nor find a suitable new one in Swansea , where he took up his post a few months ago . |
| 15 | He called me into his room a few moments ago and said he was leaving . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Gordon included in his presentation a few shots of the journey through the UK to join the tour and some tram photographs . |
| 18 | Sonny shook his head a few times , trying to clear his fuddled senses . |
| 19 | He simply shook his head a few times and went on grinning . |
| 20 | In April 1820 Green 's doctor , Richard Scambler , and his prating wife are ‘ replete with folly ’ , and in writing his obituary a few months later Green ‘ can find very little to praise . ’ |
| 21 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
| 22 | His address a few days later to the Central Committee in Moscow balanced these remarks with more familiar declarations about the ‘ further strengthening of the positions of existing socialism ’ and growing opposition to the ‘ reactionary , aggressive forces of imperialism ’ . |
| 23 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 24 | There was just too much distance between him and Richmann , however , and Richmann needed only to move his hand a few inches before firing . |
| 25 | And while she was concentrating on Tavett she watched Shildon , reflected in the glass of a painting on the wall in front of her , slide his hand a few inches along the couch , flip open her bag and feel through the contents . |
| 26 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |
| 29 | The boy raised his arm a few inches higher . |
| 30 | Hill House , the new home which Harry Pascoe had had built for himself and his family a few years before , stood in solitary grandeur on the high ground out towards Townsend 's Farm . |