Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
2 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
3 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
4 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
5 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
6 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
7 | I am having the matter looked into , and I shall make a statement about it in a few minutes . |