Example sentences of "[verb] [art] few [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who can save the world now ? 99 tea of course — slip a few tea bags into his utility belt tonight , Alfred can make him a cup downstairs . |
| 2 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 3 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
| 4 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 5 | Simon Rundell , who works in one of the London hospitals threatened with closure , has a few home truths for the health secretary |
| 6 | She has a few men friends at the moment : ‘ They 're all special ’ , she smiles . |
| 7 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 8 | Arbuckle directed a few comedy shorts as William Goodrich , was booed when he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces , and began to drink heavily . |
| 9 | If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis . |
| 10 | I guess he 's just what Big Jack needs , a full-back who 'll try & get forward , and if they qualify we could see a few Leeds players in the USA even if without England and Scotland . |
| 11 | During filming he became firm friends with Steve McQueen , who played a psychopathic , womanizing American bomber captain who tries to seduce his co-pilot 's English girlfriend , only to be told a few home truths about his attitude to people and war . |
| 12 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 13 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 14 | Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ? |
| 15 | Later , along with two other historians who had , like me , secured entry to Oxford or Cambridge , I was given a few science tutorials in my last term at school . |
| 16 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 17 | There was also a touch of home — one of the Highlanders produced a few newspaper cuttings from the British Press . |
| 18 | Certainly some men of the S.A.S. did ( as Captain Derrick Harrison tells us ) make a few training flights in gliders when waiting at Fairford to be sent to France ; and the use of gliders for later operations was considered . |
| 19 | However , not only is the wind downwind of a sail affected but also that behind the board , since the sail curves the wind and it takes a few board lengths for it to revert to its normal direction . |
| 20 | ‘ Paul Spence has kindly agreed to give a few revision classes on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture to final-year BA students : Tuesday … ’ |
| 21 | Scatter a few chocolate coins around the base of the cake . |
| 22 | Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea . |
| 23 | Not unless I get a few phone calls from been here today . |
| 24 | We also achieved a few column inches in the Focus paper and brought the NCT to the attention of many people who had never heard of us before . |
| 25 | Similar to Fitzgerald , I had retreated a few patients months to years after their initial management , but one third of patients still had symptoms of constipation 6.8 ( 2.8 ) years after initial evaluation . |
| 26 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 27 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited my hon. Friend 's constituency and delivered a few home truths to the city council about its housing policy failures . |
| 29 | It was an extraordinary sight to see a seventeenth-century church perched on steel-runners and pulled a few score metres from its original place . |
| 30 | It is worth discussing your child 's needs in detail and having a few rehearsal sessions before committing yourself to a job . |