Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] with [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’
2 As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed .
3 An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots .
4 When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm .
5 ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’
6 She could supply them with a few answers .
7 ‘ Oh , I did that , ’ she told him flatly , ‘ but if that was your intention which I doubt , do n't you think it might have been kinder to have left me with a few illusions ? ’
8 It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb .
9 She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away .
10 All those below were too busy and had not time to spare to comfort him with a few minutes ' companionship .
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