Example sentences of "a few things " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I have now been through the notebook you left with me and there are a few things I wish . |
| 2 | I was now at a bit of a loss as to what to do next , so I wandered upstairs to the room that housed the books covering my subject , just to check up on a few things . |
| 3 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 4 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 5 | To conclude this section it is necessary to point out a few things about the squad training sessions . |
| 6 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 7 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 8 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 9 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 10 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 11 | Let me say a few things about this . |
| 12 | A few things nettled her : she did not relish being a clearing house for family complaints , for instance , and was carefully reticent on such occasions . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 14 | Those seven miles took a long time , but we worked a few things out . |
| 15 | Living in both Manchester and Leeds , I am in the position to be able to put a few things straight . |
| 16 | Ask you a few things . |
| 17 | I want you to tell me a few things and then I 'll let you go back to sleep , all right ? ’ |
| 18 | I said , ‘ I think you should know how to cook a few things , in case they ask you to feed the children , ’ but she seemed to think that knowing how to make a Marmite sandwich would be enough . |
| 19 | A few things have been achieved , I suppose . |
| 20 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 21 | There are a few things to be wary of in using the fifty millesimals . |
| 22 | The human brain , and the body that it controls , can not do more than one or a few things at once . |
| 23 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 24 | As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition . |
| 25 | You must surely have observed a few things about Fräulein Müller . ’ |
| 26 | The delay gave Uncle Fred breathing space , so he packed a few things , walked the four miles into Salisbury , caught the train to Portsmouth and joined the Marines . |
| 27 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 28 | You 've got time to do a few things first . |
| 29 | I hope you will print my letter for the benefit of the young women who think they are in love and are willing to overlook ‘ a few things ’ because they are afraid that they ca n't live without the guy . |
| 30 | When we find this extremely difficult , there are a few things we can do to make it easier . |