Example sentences of "[prep] a few [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll no worry about that Rocastle business after a few wee snifters of Teachers ’ … |
| 2 | However , she leaves more cheerfully after a few choice words from one of the boys suggesting that her photograph should be changed because it does n't do her justice . |
| 3 | Three or four minutes later he heard a female with an Irish accent enquiring who wanted her : after a few cheery exchanges with the other inmates , she arrived at his pen . |
| 4 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 5 | After a few more minutes of ribald banter on our part we were startled by a flash to starboard and an explosion as a six-pound shell whizzed across our bows . |
| 6 | Three of them heaved the bulk over on to the high rocks and after a few more buckets of water , they stood back to inspect it further . |
| 7 | After a few more months on other farms , he would be ready to start farming himself . |
| 8 | After a few more days in Salamanca , during which you and I could do no work in common , your friends left in a great uproar of drunken invective , shouting political slogans — which fortunately were in German — against the Franco regime . |
| 9 | After a few initial displays of outraged incomprehension , Brian had been forced to accept this as a fact of life , explaining to his colleagues and superiors , with a wry smile , that Constance was a friend of his wife 's : his wife had a taste for the eccentric , since she was the daughter of a famous artist , and , oddly enough , believe it or not , Constance was a skilled silversmith . |
| 10 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 11 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 12 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 13 | In Syria , special forces were moved into every major town soon after the onset of war with orders to shoot to prevent further demonstrations after a few spontaneous outbursts of public protest occurred in the east of the country . |
| 14 | Meanwhile pacifists were generally content with the abstract moralizing suggested by the Manchester Guardian 's opposition to the formation of a Liberal Foreign Affairs Committee on the grounds that the ‘ success or failure [ of foreign policy ] depends on the application of a few simple principles to facts which as a rule are not very numerous nor very complicated . ’ |
| 15 | If that means throwing hundreds out of work , or depriving families of a few extra pounds by delaying interest rate cuts , then so be it . |
| 16 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) , " suggesting ruins of stone walls ( 2 ) , " looked solid ( 2 ) , " Corresponding in their insignificance " ( 4 ) , " as of a few scattered pieces of silver ( 5 ) , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up … " ( 5 ) , " mitre-shaped " ( 6 ) . |
| 18 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 19 | For the cost of a few cubic feet of topsoil , the garden can be terraced excitingly onto , say , three levels . |
| 20 | It extended the web of relationships under the mantle of a few comprehensive terms of relationship connoting close , primordial loyalties . |
| 21 | All this fuss over the hunting of a few small cubes of mycoprotein |
| 22 | She has also been involved with the organisation of a few other projects including a National Sleep Out , which aimed to increase public awareness of Aberdeen 's homeless people and Dial-a-Santa which took place at the end of last year . |
| 23 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 24 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 25 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 26 | In the course of his fieldwork the anthropologist will observe in considerable detail the day-to-day interactions of a few hundred individuals with many of whom he will eventually become intimately acquainted . |
| 27 | The great majority of revolutionary populists resolutely rejected the deception and unprincipled adventurism of a few untypical deviants like Nechaev . |
| 28 | There was an enormous gap between the possibilities of radical architecture and the strategic thinking of a few academic planners on the one hand , and the practical capabilities of planning staffs at local government level , on the other . |
| 29 | But take a word of advice … do n't get delusions of grandeur on the basis of a few steamy nights with Guy … he 's the ultimate bastard where women are concerned , darling . |
| 30 | Although the speculations of a few Italian statesmen about the African shores of the Mediterranean hinted at the patterns of future international rivalry , the powers for the most part displayed in 1880 an almost complete preoccupation with European interests and lack of sensitivity about the rest of the world . |