Example sentences of "few [noun] [adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett smiled ; a few minutes later he wished he had n't , for he too was sick and was still trembling when they safely reached the abbey gates . |
| 2 | A few minutes later he met Maidstone . |
| 3 | But a few minutes later he heard the rattle of heavy rain on the loose corrugated iron sheet hiding the way in , felt the first trickle of water crawling down the floor , and then remembered how long this place took to drain . |
| 4 | A few minutes later he sent the signal back to fleet of the now famous ‘ Tora ! |
| 5 | A few minutes later he went to a room on the first floor to take a blood test . |
| 6 | A few minutes later he banged the receiver down and turned to Claudia , a heavy scowl on his face . |
| 7 | A few minutes later he asked another word . |
| 8 | Ruth thanked him for his information and a few minutes later he raised his hat and walked away . |
| 9 | The first alleges he set fire to clothing valued at £10 in Littlewoods store in Oxford city centre , the second alleges that a few minutes later he set fire to clothing worth about £100 at the Nicklebys store nearby . |
| 10 | A few minutes later he rose and I heard him say , ‘ Goodnight and thank you for giving me your interesting reminiscences . ’ |
| 11 | A few minutes later he appeared and said he must go to her . |
| 12 | He slipped off his white coat and a few minutes later he hurried from the centre . |
| 13 | A few hours previously he had reportedly made a videotape recording , accusing people of wanting to kill him . |
| 14 | Few hours later he calls , we 're the funeral parlour , right ? he 's recommended us , we do the honours , bury them , ’ and his mouth opened like a grave , you could fall into that mouth for ever and ever , amen , and all those crooked grey teeth of his , no names that you could see , no names or dates , just blank , so nobody could find you , nobody could visit , nobody could leave flowers . |
| 15 | The message was delivered to Mr Adams on Sunday , yet only a few hours later he refused to join with the leaders of constitutional parties in condemning the bomb outrage . |
| 16 | A few hours ago he had not known that she existed , now he was a licensed voyeur , authorized to meddle in her most intimate concerns . |
| 17 | Then a few months later he got a job with a trucking company , moved into a new house and eventually got married . |
| 18 | But at least in introducing the 1983 Annual Report a few months later he announced with pride ‘ Your Committee has brought out the Bondholders ! ’ |
| 19 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 20 | Then a few months later he hosted the local natural history club 's wildlife question time . |
| 21 | An then a few months later he said , Well oh , he said , I 'm I 'm g I 'll go to Canada , he says , er I 'll tell them . |
| 22 | A few months later he decided not to publish the book but with tremendous generosity said that I could use whatever I wanted from it . |
| 23 | A few months ago he died , and his wife sold the house and went to live with her sister . |
| 24 | Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ? |
| 25 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 26 | Only a few months earlier he had , as she was soon to discover , been involved in a plot to murder her secretary and musician David Rizzio , believing or half-believing that the two of them were lovers . |
| 27 | All he had to do to seal his England career was pop in a two , a few goals like he does at Palace |
| 28 | Glen Campbell used a similar approach on a few tracks when he did the sessions for The Everlys ' wonderful Great Country Hits album of 1963 . |
| 29 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 30 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |