Example sentences of "[verb] a few [noun pl] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , you will need a few bits and bobs to get started , but Pat can provide a list . |
| 2 | ‘ I entered a few eisteddfods and competitions and did the exams but that was as far as I went . |
| 3 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 4 | Picked a few parcels and wrappers to Marks and Sparks . |
| 5 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 6 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 7 | The team has a few ifs and buts about it . |
| 8 | It has a few houses and shops , even a post office . |
| 9 | Er there 's mine needs a few bits and bobs I ca n't do it though cos I have n't got enough money . |
| 10 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
| 11 | I 've still got a few odds and ends that are late |
| 12 | Thus ( ignoring a few complications and qualifications ) , if a piece of land was worth £500 in its existing use but was sold for £3,500 with planning permission , the levy was applied to the difference , that is , £3,000 ; the levy , at the initial rate , was £1,200 . |
| 13 | I still make necklaces from strips of knitting with beads or marbles sewn in at intervals and they are still very popular , whether ‘ wooly ’ for sweaters or lurexed for evening wear ; but |I have recently been trying very simple macramé to knot several strips decoratively together and maybe add a few beads or jewels and the results can be quite spectacular . |
| 14 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 15 | Having endorsed this as a learning technique , let me make a few recommendations and observations of my own and list my personal ‘ top ten ’ . |
| 16 | Bows and arrows being the staple of every river vessel 's equipment , their archers shot back , with the wind , and had the satisfaction of seeing a few men and youngsters impaled . |
| 17 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 18 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 19 | However , all the system manages to do is create 32Kb of High RAM ( D800-DFFF ) , load a few bits and pieces up there and leave me with 550Kb available in Conventional memory . |
| 20 | He sat in the dining-room , able to enjoy a few biscuits and fruit rather than the ‘ gargantuan midday meal which was hitherto compulsory ’ . |
| 21 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 22 | She confides , ‘ He gets a few drinks and wants to wipe everybody out . ’ |
| 23 | You can work towards a degree or diploma over a period of years — or choose single courses lasting a few weeks or months , from an enormous list of topics ranging from childcare to computer science . |
| 24 | You get a few aches and pains |
| 25 | Just get a few odds and ends like you know |
| 26 | My father will go to the cash and carry every week , and perhaps he 'll pop into into Tesco 's or something and get a few bits and pieces , so we got a lot in the fridge , but it 's not a lot of variety . |
| 27 | Dierdriu , thought her granddaughter , had probably gone noisily and wantonly along brightly lit corridors , brandishing torches , attended by half the Court , very likely conducting a few odds and ends of State business along the way . |
| 28 | The couple 's interest in gardening began with the desire to grow fuchsias to fill a few pots and baskets . |
| 29 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 30 | She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy . |