Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 2 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 3 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 4 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 5 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 6 | For a few minutes we slipped into the hut . |
| 7 | After a few minutes he burst into our room with a shocked look on his face . |
| 8 | Bella always tries , but after a few minutes she burst into tears and would never go near that room again . |
| 9 | For a few minutes she indulged in a fantasy where she was one of the young mothers and the child by her side was Roman 's . |
| 10 | For a few minutes she knelt by the grave , and was presently joined by Maria . |
| 11 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 12 | For the next few hours they went among the high street shops , first searching through the shelves of Joseph Toms , Toys and Fancy Goods , for novelties , then looking among the tiny cupboards of Charles Weaver , Apothecary , sampling the sweet-tasting , harmless powders on their fingers and mixing the brightly-coloured liquids in beakers . |
| 13 | Within a few hours he cancelled on the grounds that the subject was ‘ too sensitive ’ — some twelve years after the amalgamation of his library had taken place . |
| 14 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |
| 15 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 16 | there were n't many that sort , that felt the way I did , I mean I hated him , I really did and when he turned round and he said ooh Keith wants a few words I said to Elaine , look shit 's gon na be it , |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | During the first few months he worked with a gang of local road-menders , filling pot-holes on the highway , smoothing cambers , paving the dirt tracks that led to ranches . |
| 22 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 23 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 24 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 25 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 26 | He based this conclusion on a very few individuals who married within their peer group in the kibbutz and were found to have entered the kibbutz during their childhood and usually after the age of six . |
| 27 | Over a few years he disposed of about £40,000 . |
| 28 | The next few years he spent in travel and ( dread words ) in commerce , drinking in the wonderful perplexities that Europe , after India and Scotland , threw at him . |
| 29 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 30 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |