Example sentences of "[art] few words in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth quoting here from a speech made by Gladstone when he opened St Martin-in-the-Fields public library a hundred years ago , and a few words in answer by W.H. Smith who , incidentally , was of the opposite political persuasion : party politics were not involved in these vital matters then . |
| 2 | If you are not in Spain , it can also manage a few words in five other languages . |
| 3 | A few words in Spanish had been painted on the tack-room roof . |
| 4 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 5 | And she has taught her new classmates a few words in Serbo-Croat . |
| 6 | That is just a few words in your mind you can see a person walking along . |
| 7 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |
| 8 | But before we get down to the equations I must say a few words in defence of the approach I choose . |
| 9 | No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C. |
| 10 | O'Hara , on behalf of the company , spoke a few words in appreciation of Meredith . |
| 11 | They exchanged a few words in what sounded like Spanish . |
| 12 | St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 : |
| 13 | ‘ The young man you saw merely exchanged a few words in English with me , and his arm was on the back of the seat — not cuddling me ! |
| 14 | With the leave of the House , I wish to say a few words in reply . |
| 15 | And I now know at least a few words in Greek , Italian and Portuguese ! ’ |
| 16 | He 's the butler There are usually a few words in a language that can only be used gesturally : for example there are presentatives like French voici , and toasts like British English cheers . |
| 17 | It will look at the entirety of the obligations undertaken by the firm and determine the nature of the relationship from the whole contract construed in the light of its commercial context rather than from a few words in the contract . |
| 18 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 19 | with some , some things to write a few words in , some things to tick , some things to make a mark on one of the numbers and so forth so erm er you know it 's erm but as I say it 's difficult to er |
| 20 | Sergei and Anton , from Chernobyl , too shy perhaps to speak even a few words in their own language . |
| 21 | An early attempt at defining intonation units was that of Jones ( 1975 , Chapter 30 ) , where stretches of speech between pauses were called ‘ breath-groups ’ and marked with double vertical lines , and smaller stretches within these , called ‘ sense-groups ’ , bounded by places where ‘ pauses may be made ’ and consisting of ‘ a few words in close grammatical connexion ’ . |
| 22 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |