Example sentences of "[adv] with a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 2 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 3 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 4 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 5 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 6 | Add it to the icing sugar , together with a few drops of yellow food colouring . |
| 7 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 8 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
| 9 | It was obviously a recently fledged bird , still with a few tufts of down adhering to its head , but of its parents there was no sign . |
| 10 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
| 11 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 12 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
| 13 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
| 14 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 15 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 16 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 17 | Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach . |