Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 2 | This bright red bus is large and suitable for serving quite a few children . |
| 3 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 4 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 5 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 6 | It costs $15 for adults and $7 for children for the excitement of running not a few miles . |
| 7 | Channichthyid fish of antarctic waters , for example the icefish Champsocephalus aceratus , are unusual in possessing only a few erythrocytes ( red blood corpuscles ) as larvae and none as adults ; related species have much reduced erythrocyte counts throughout life . |
| 8 | Spurs then started knocking the ball around nicely from the back and succeeded in creating quite a few gaps . |
| 9 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |
| 10 | I also spoke of my difficulty in giving talks to the armed forces ; for nothing remotely intellectual was acceptable , and the only use which I felt I could be was in taking along a few maps and indicating the whereabouts of places increasingly mentioned on the wireless or the press ( though they read only the ‘ picture ’ papers ) . |
| 11 | There was little Luch could do , apart from laying aside a few blocks of honeycomb for her . |
| 12 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 13 | And I think she intends on having quite a few drinks . |
| 14 | There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’ |
| 15 | Assembly time is a natural occasion for identifying just a few children who have done well — a whole succession of children called to the front for praise in a single assembly simply devalues the reward . |
| 16 | It ca n't be used , for example , for casting off a few stitches at the armhole . |
| 17 | The mestizo dug his thumb into his cocaine pouch and cursed at finding only a few grains on the nail . |
| 18 | For instance you could n't , like nowadays , tighten up a slack scene where people were n't picking up their cues so quickly by cutting out a few pauses here and there . |
| 19 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 20 | All they have to do is erase the magical circle , which they can do simply by rubbing out a few inches of the chalk with a rag or cloth . |
| 21 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 22 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |