Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Plus a few sketches he left behind , ’ added Reid . |
| 2 | Those few authorities which do not at present have a policy on health education might care to consider the influence which this has on the development of school policy . |
| 3 | After some minutes they went up to the room . |
| 4 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 5 | I shall give some reasons which weigh heavily in favour of the withdrawal of this provision . |
| 6 | But there were some rules he knew better than she ever would . |
| 7 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 8 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 9 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
| 10 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 11 | Elsewhere in the café , one of Sunsail 's flotilla skippers was explaining the difference between a sheet and a halyard to some Germans who had never heard of either . |
| 12 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 13 | In fact , at each stage of the criminal justice process , there are only a few cases which get both widespread and sustained coverage in both the national and local press . |
| 14 | For a few minutes we fought wildly . |
| 15 | He was reading a newspaper , but every few minutes he looked up from it , to talk to me . |
| 16 | After a few minutes he came back and locked the door behind him . |
| 17 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 18 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 19 | After a few minutes she went out and Quigley came in , waving a piece of paper . |
| 20 | Every few minutes she glanced again at the postcard . |
| 21 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 22 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 23 | She made it back to her office and sank into her chair ; but after a few minutes she sat up , combed her hair and decided to go home . |
| 24 | After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel . |
| 25 | As our inner-city work was mainly focused on very fine-grained differentiation , we have so far paid less attention to these more generalized markers in Belfast English , and in some cases we have not published the quantitative findings that arose from studying these . |
| 26 | In some cases they do not conform to the kinds of sources that naturally have such material inherent to their structure . |
| 27 | In some cases I have deliberately not mentioned a particular plant because I consider it to be unsuitable for pressing , but I am sure that there are many plants not listed that will press very well . |
| 28 | All the money I have earned over the years has gone — in some cases I do n't why or where — but the fact is that at the age of 40 , I have no savings . |
| 29 | But in some cases it seems more probable that they are deliberately engineered by the virus to help it to travel from one host to another . |
| 30 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |