Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 2 | After a few gigs and demos in the late '80s , they eventually — with the help of local soulmates American Music Club — came to the attention of 4AD 's Ivo Watts-Russell , who , enraptured , put out six of these demos from 1989 –'90; as the ‘ Down Colorful Hill ’ album last September . |
| 3 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
| 4 | Acne may be a case of a few spots and blackheads , or it can be a highly distressing skin disease with redness , inflammation , pimples and even scarring . |
| 5 | The rest of us left Addis Ababa by train on the morning of 1 October 1933 , arriving three hours later at Mojjo , which consisted of a few sheds and huts . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Heron ( 1794 ) says that Lewis was destitute of wood except for a few birches and hazels ’ . |
| 7 | WATCH receptionist/telephonist Ann Sheppard at work for a few minutes and productivity levels take on a whole new dimension . |
| 8 | just for a few bits and pieces and any extras and |
| 9 | As always , we have to be prepared beforehand , and as we can not start the job without tools , this is the place for a few dos and don'ts . |
| 10 | The Soul Eater crouched for a few moments and Nuadu saw that a thin silvery fluid was beginning to course along its hollow talons . |
| 11 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 12 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 13 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
| 14 | So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down . |
| 15 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 16 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 17 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
| 18 | The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail . |
| 19 | Before studying the procedures described further on , it will be helpful to be familiar with a few facts and suggestions for making personal " rules of thumb " and simplified tables as aids to mental calculations . |
| 20 | At all sites at which there have been landings , manned or otherwise , the lunar surface is almost entirely blanketed in fine dust , with a few stones and boulders here and there . |
| 21 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
| 22 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 23 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 24 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 25 | You will then still have enough material with which to create an attractive picture , rather than try to make a suitable design from a few odds and ends . |
| 26 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 27 | Apart from a few news and sport items and the TV listings , how much of Monday 's Mirror or Sun could not equally well be published on the following Thursday or Friday ? |
| 28 | In the early days of " Darwinism " , when the race was on to find tangible evidence of the " missing link " between apes and men , it was again from Indonesia that , from a few molars and shreds of skull , Java Man and Gigantopithecus would briefly rise to claim the title . |
| 29 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
| 30 | In a few ravines and glens in the Uists warmth-demanding , southern-atlantic cryptogams occur locally , including the Macaronesian-tropical species Jubula hutchinsiae and Dryopteris aemula . |