Example sentences of "[art] [noun] with [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have dry skin , you may wish to mix the essences with a few teaspoonfuls of vegetable oil ; that is , if you do not mind cleaning a greasy bath afterwards ! |
| 2 | That 's why I 'm trying to fill up the gap with a few concerts , but of course I 'm not good enough for the big dates , it will be mostly provincial engagements . |
| 3 | As soon as the removal van is spotted by a neighbourhood group member , the new family is welcomed into the area with a few pastries and an offer of practical help . |
| 4 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 5 | The past year has been a rollercoaster one for the royals with a few highs followed by lots of depressing lows . |
| 6 | Bernice dumped the remaining food on the floor with a few sweeps of her hand and kicked it under the rubber skirts of the machine . |
| 7 | Some nights , me and Sarah went down to the ocean with a few flasks |
| 8 | fix it firmly at the vase with a few stitches or a spot of glue and pull it round the ‘ neck ’ by winding a thread round it ( you 'll have a few small folds here ) . |
| 9 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
| 10 | After the season the show would tour the country with a few troupes from the original cast and local children appearing in the large scenes . |
| 11 | At internal angles between riser and tread , it wo n't be possible to prise them apart , so fill any slight gaps with a little wood adhesive and secure through the joint with a few nails . |
| 12 | The agent usually starts off the party with a few games , to help people get to know each other . |
| 13 | The children are left out on the plains with a few goats from a very young age . |
| 14 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 15 | In which there 'd be a picture and a description with a few words . |
| 16 | Not just the clink of milk bottles , but more strangely , the sounds of a group with a few pintas of potential . |
| 17 | The result is an approximate history of the site : for example , the site may begin with the construction of a farmhouse with a few outbuildings , then a large barn was built , alterations were made to the farmhouse , two of the outbuildings were demolished , and so on . |
| 18 | Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation . |
| 19 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 20 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 21 | The tail was just a stump with a few feathers beginning to show through , rather like the beard stubble that appears when someone has n't shaved fur a couple of days . |
| 22 | We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution . |
| 23 | Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it . |
| 24 | You 're not going to brush aside a tradition with a few facts . |
| 25 | ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night . |
| 26 | Still , he prepared her cigarettes for her at least , filling a saucer with a few butts and plenty of ash . |
| 27 | They were put into a little room , no more than a cubicle , where there were two kitchen-chairs and a table with a few magazines . |
| 28 | There was , however , a market with a few shops , since discontinued : a new church , St Aldhelm 's , now demolished ; tennis courts , shrubberies , a zigzag path along the cliff , later obliterated by landslips ; and sheltered stone seats known as ‘ All the year round ’ . |
| 29 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |