Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a few [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 2 | Yes that is , yes , could do with a few more mind you , but still , that looks nice there |
| 3 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 4 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
| 5 | Whether it has been recently fired will only be shown with a few additional laboratory tests . |
| 6 | It usually leads to a few cracked paving stones , ’ he said . |
| 7 | All too often a patio is merely an area of plain paving slabs furnished with a few metal-framed sun loungers , which are functional but hardly attractive . |
| 8 | The canoeing is mostly grade I racks with a few tight grade I+/II shoots ; there is one grade II at Bogroy footbridge , a twisting descent over 3 rock ledges , and the photographically spectacular grade III in the centre of Carrbridge itself . |
| 9 | The pale , polished maplewood floor was strewn with a few vibrant kelim rugs . |
| 10 | I need only quote from a few Welsh Office publications : |
| 11 | The reluctance to invest in a few good demonstration videos may stem not only from the fact that there are indeed some very poor , amateurish productions around , but also , compared with most books , videos are still comparatively expensive . |
| 12 | Most rely on a few basic chord progressions , eke out their standard 3 minutes 20 seconds with a brief instrumental solo , and close with a bridge passage between two choruses . |
| 13 | The spores do germinate , go through a few perfunctory cell divisions , then give up the ghost . |
| 14 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 15 | You could experiment with a few different distortion pedals . |
| 16 | Busacher put in a few whirly violin runs on the piano and crescendoed unnecessarily loudly , paused too long , gasped , she joined him , and together they sailed into the finale and burst out laughing . |
| 17 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 18 | If the MD asks you What if interest rates drop to 6% , you can use the scenario manager to show how the end result would differ from the figures you have calculated — and throw in a few other interest rates as well , just to impress him/her and make that rise you were after a touch more attainable . |