Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it .
2 ‘ I only intend to stay a few minutes .
3 If you only want to take a few doors or windows back to bare wood for repainting , there are many other cheaper guns that would do the job .
4 If you only want to raise a few seedlings in spring , and provide a humid atmosphere for some cuttings later , an unheated propagator will be adequate .
5 And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building .
6 His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead .
7 ‘ I 'm only going to trade a few horses , woman , nothing else . ’
8 My father thought the sentence unjust because he had only agreed to buy a few bottles of bootleg whisky .
9 For the rest of the day he-would go into Inverness , take his spare clothes into a launderette and then perhaps try to find a public baths with hot showers .
10 I only need to carry a few tubes of paint and some water in an old squash bottle , all packed into my fisherman 's box which doubles for a seat , and my paper masking-taped down to my board .
11 I only wanted to get a few comments about Froggy .
12 She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it .
13 I just want to make a few pennies by selling some horseflesh .
14 just wanting to check a few angles .
15 It would probably to appropriate for me to er second the motion in Welsh er , but as you 're and neither the English Welsh I would just like to say a few things , one , to express the appreciation of my council for the and secondly ,
16 I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended .
17 I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended .
18 So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate .
19 Just remember to take a few tins of things .
20 I generally ask to have a few kicks before a big game , ’ Fox said .
21 Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme .
22 When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex .
23 There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’
24 There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’
25 I just have to read a few tabloids these days to get me going .
26 and then I would say well you know I just need to make a few notes
27 You 'll still have to do a few miles ?
28 She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily .
29 Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer .
30 He later admitted deleting a Financial Times file .
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