Example sentences of "[verb] a few [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her death rated a few lines in the papers , but the full significance of her passing went unreported . |
| 2 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 3 | Place a few pebbles in the bottom of the tube to aid drainage before inserting the clothes pole , umbrella etc . |
| 4 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 5 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 6 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 7 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 8 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 9 | I just put a few things in the wrong place because I did n't read , you know , put them in too soon . |
| 10 | The authority 's sewage works vary in size from those producing many millions of gallons of treated effluent a day to those serving a few houses in a rural area where the discharge may be the merest trickle . |
| 11 | Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes . |
| 12 | The Firm uses a few muscle-brains in the Middle East and so on , but they 're employed at several removes and a lot 's done to make sure they stay overseas . |
| 13 | Use an angled mouth pipette to localize a few embryos in a small drop of infiltration mix in the centre of the flat base of a BEEM capsule , fill up the capsule with Spurr and polymerize at 60C for 16 h . |
| 14 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 15 | Fancy teaming up to shoot a few goals in a dynamic , fast growing team sport ? |
| 16 | But I 've noticed a few faces in the crowd and it wo n't be long . |
| 17 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 18 | threw a few things in an old army surplus |
| 19 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 20 | ‘ But the horse has certainly had a few adventures in the meantime . |
| 21 | And I er was talking to her down the lane when Mrs Monday and I asked her how she was and she said oh I 've had a few falls in the house and all . |
| 22 | The Captain opened a few drawers in the dressing-table . |
| 23 | He opened a few drawers in the dresser until he saw what he 'd expected to find — half a dozen packets of tights . |
| 24 | A policeman asked a few people in the queue questions which they answered desultorily . |
| 25 | We passed a few minutes in the exchanges that usually pass for conversation between people who know each other slightly and have no real business connection . |
| 26 | You pop on to The Michael Aspel Show as a guest , crack a few jokes in a borrowed gown , plug your latest book/show/film/affair , mop up more than your rightful share of Sancerre in the Hostility Room , and go home in a studio limo . |
| 27 | Each jump crosses a few light-hours in a bio-second or two . |
| 28 | Make a few slashes in the chicken flesh . |
| 29 | While Pamella flung a few things in a suitcase and scrambled off to Bali tout de suite , Fleet Street fanned out to play cherchez la femme . |
| 30 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |