Example sentences of "few [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect he 'll bounce a few off him . ’ |
| 2 | I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence . |
| 3 | Here are a few for you to use . |
| 4 | ‘ You can have a few of they . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 6 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 7 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 8 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 9 | Only a small minority of tenants were taking guest beers and few of them were worried about losing them , Tuppen claimed . |
| 10 | The idea of literary sensibility would probably be dismissed by the culturalists of the Left as a piece of mystification , and certainly few of them have shown signs of possessing it , on either side of the Atlantic . |
| 11 | Very few men do have any moments whatever , and for the benefit of such readers as have not sufficiently respected Mr Binyon for his , it would be well to set forth a few of them . |
| 12 | If there are few of them , we have seen why . |
| 13 | Few of them , in Henry Fairlie 's phrase , have ‘ known all the right people ’ . |
| 14 | His words to the Commando Officer in the jeep were drowned by the crack of the 15 pounders as a few of them opened fire , the guns lurching forward as the shells sped off towards their target . |
| 15 | From the thicket I could see the bridge and to my amazement I could see Commandos marching in file across the bridge and coming slowly towards me , a few of them looking and pointing in my direction . |
| 16 | They were all aspiring entrepreneurs , but so few of them had an original idea . |
| 17 | In fact one of the striking characteristics of the history of Africa 's informals during the last three decades is how few of them have managed to launch genuine large-scale businesses , capable of competing with the foreign-owned or -managed enterprises which are still so critical in many countries . |
| 18 | Few of them in Nigeria , as elsewhere , have more than ten years of schooling . |
| 19 | There were daunting moments in last night 's First Tuesday ( Yorkshire ) , but few of them matched that hint of a jackboot under the blue serge . |
| 20 | THE government of the United States wants to show it is on the side of the angels , but finds too few of them in Central America . |
| 21 | Few Washingtonians talk like this , perhaps because few of them are Yankee patrician war heroes , perhaps because politics has rubbed the gleam off them . |
| 22 | Violent though a few of them are , they are beginning to succeed . |
| 23 | But experience shows that few companies will budge without vast incentives ; most firms recruit few local people ; some leave when tax holidays end ; and zones work only when there are few of them in any one area . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've had a good few of them , Mummy . ’ |
| 25 | There are only a few of them and we 're unlucky to be involved . ’ |
| 26 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 27 | Few of them were old enough to remember the first Great Famine of the 1840s , when Father Cavanagh had worked tirelessly to help the starving . |
| 28 | Quite a few of them thought that they could . |
| 29 | Until the trial , few of them would probably have read The Face . |
| 30 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |