Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
2 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
3 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
4 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
5 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
6 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
7 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
8 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
9 | ‘ Oh , a grateful girl like me can put up with a few bruises , ’ said Dolly , sheet and blankets up to her chin . |
10 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
11 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
12 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |