Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 2 | He satisfied himself with a few words of hurried consultation during a House of Commons debate . |
| 3 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 4 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 5 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 6 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 7 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 8 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 9 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
| 10 | It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood . |
| 11 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 12 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 13 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |