Example sentences of "through a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry will run through a few soul favourites , backed by the Womack & Womack Band . |
| 2 | Nigel leafed through a few large-print Agatha Christies but was put off by the noxious inexplicable stains on the pages . |
| 3 | She had passed through a few rooms . |
| 4 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 5 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 7 | Carwyn desperately wanted to come through a few heats of the Pipeline Masters . |
| 8 | The spores do germinate , go through a few perfunctory cell divisions , then give up the ghost . |
| 9 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 10 | If it is re-written ( without the decimal equivalent ) but this time extended through a few complete cycles something else emerges . |
| 11 | But often we would n't get that straight away ; we 'd have to go through a few guitars before we found the combination of guitar and amp and EQ on the desk . |
| 12 | Here , in a role that might have better suited Peter Sellers , or , more authentically , Alberto Sordi , he goes through a few variations on Ben Braddock and Jason Fister , the agent in his first Italian misadventure . |
| 13 | I make a coffee and flick through a few albums to try and find something suitable — a Michael Sembelo , a Philip Baily , a Deacon Blue , but none of them feel right in my soul . |
| 14 | Having flicked through a few foreign magazines , the boys at Crawford House had made a shocking discovery that the rest of the world no longer climbed on soggy crags in the rain , but wore skimpy clothing , looked beautiful and climbed at Buoux instead . |
| 15 | The front , like the back , was made as two 6ft sections through a few adjustments were made in order to incorporate a door and windows . |
| 16 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 17 | We flick through a few of them , Gilbert and George pointing out the anachronistic charm of the airbrushed male nudes . |
| 18 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 19 | ‘ But I thought it was extremely funny — Audrey would whizz through a few chores in the shop , then she 'd go swanning off shopping somewhere , ’ smiles Sue . |
| 20 | That 's the main thing and then if you 've got any questions afterwards hopefully we 'll still have time to go through a few questions . |
| 21 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 22 | Urquhart opened the exercise book and skimmed through a few pages with furious concentration before stuffing it in his coat pocket with a grunt of satisfaction . |
| 23 | Consequently , he endured the pain as he went through a few simple movements . |
| 24 | You 've now all seen a project quality plan , but I 'd just like to go through a few of the headings just to advise you where I think the benefits lie . |
| 25 | Now , we do n't think he 's going to press charges , but you must realise that if he did you would in fact be facing a charge of assault , and coming as this does on top of your other verbal and written warnings — all within , I 'm afraid to say , Steve , " Mr Smith sat back in his seat with a sigh and flicked through a few more of the papers on his desk , shaking his head at them , " a very short interval of time considering the length of your employment with us , and all regarding previous lapses in … " |
| 26 | You might get through a few months , gross good luck see you to a year , but from then on the odds against survival lengthened considerably . |
| 27 | But a careful look through a few of the magazines and newspapers in which wildlife traders advertise , suggests otherwise , says Steven Broad , Investigations Officer , Wildlife Trade Monitoring Unit . |
| 28 | He struggled through a few games but a swollen knee indicated his problems were not over . |
| 29 | Let me just run through a few features of American political life which make it rather different to er to our own er sceptred isle . |