Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] and a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
2 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
3 | I add a small clump of Java Moss and a few grains of Aquazorb , which helps to keep the water sweet . |
4 | And if it was n't for Captain Eric , Sister Margaret and a few others , there would be precious little of a toehold for people like James , Carol and many others in their struggle to build something of a life in Easterhouse . |
5 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
6 | These 30 gunboats were to sail in three divisions , at the head and on the flanks of the flotilla , which in addition would have enjoyed the escort of the eight gun-sloops of the [ French ] royal navy stationed between Havre and St Malo and a few privateers from there and Cherbourg . |
7 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
8 | After an initial flirtation with Dick Tracy and a few others , however , Warhol plunged irretrievably into the vast sea of photographs for raw material . |
9 | Here you might quote the Clapton Strat , the McGuinn Rickenbacker and a few others ( argue about it amongst yourselves ) . |
10 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |