Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " 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 | Such a service is particularly useful for people who only want to sell a few privatisation shares . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Those who broke into the inn tonight want to find the same treasure . |
| 9 | I just want to make a few pennies by selling some horseflesh . |
| 10 | Just remember to take a few tins of things . |
| 11 | I generally ask to have a few kicks before a big game , ’ Fox said . |
| 12 | Kelly says that couples living together soon start to share the same skin bacteria , and it is this familiarity that enables women to pick out their men so successfully . |
| 13 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | I just have to read a few tabloids these days to get me going . |
| 17 | and then I would say well you know I just need to make a few notes |
| 18 | Would the ballerinas named above have reached the same eminence without the personal attention of a choreographer of genius ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One of the most rewarding things about being a lawyer in local government [ and a striking contract with private practice ] is that you rarely get asked the same question twice and usually the problems require imaginative legal thinking . |
| 21 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 22 | And there were a few things that you mentioned as you were going through that a you know I just really want to make a few comments on really . |
| 23 | But that 's been the pattern of our lives , we often get offered the same part and I can honestly say there 's been no professional jealousy or rivalry at all . |
| 24 | Considerable speculation exists as to the possible location of a new permanent site for the Modern Collection and suggestions so far have included the former Battersea and Bankside power stations on the south bank of the Thames and Canary Wharf in Docklands . |
| 25 | Some choreographers today have adopted the same habit . |
| 26 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 27 | On a visit to Portugal , the royal couple attract more attention when they officially stop sharing the same sleeping quarters . |
| 28 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 29 | relationship , I mean do set up , I mean , if you get into , if you establish relations with me then it 's an ongoing thing , it can be , and it ought to be , so you actually do see the same people over a period of time , and you do establish a modicum of trust , not entire trust , because it 's asking too much for entire trust in all circumstances , but at least there is a certain understanding , particularly with the , on the , on the local basis . |
| 30 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |