Example sentences of "a [adj] months [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
2 | I 'll write more about testing the call to such work , but within a few months we gave up our travelling ministry and took a team of sixteen adults plus their children out of St Luke 's and began Cranham Community Church . |
3 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
4 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
5 | Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember . |
6 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
7 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
8 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
9 | After a few months she had decided that anything would be better than the ever-changing impersonality of that sort of life . |
10 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
11 | Within a few months she expanded the business and took over a computer firm from Hertfordshire employing about 120 people . |
12 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
13 | Within a few months he produced an order from Littlewoods to produce the store 's quarterly catalogue , bringing in £478,000 of business . |
14 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
15 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
16 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |