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 . |