Example sentences of "a few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 32 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 33 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 34 | Maybe we can talk quietly to a few of the men — one of the masons from Ballechin has a son who must be twenty . ’ |
| 35 | Yet another is Lorca 's love of the city , a curious contradiction of his anti-industrialism , which only comes out explicitly in Leonard 's devotion to Montreal , though he soon became snared by New York , London , Paris , Athens and Los Angeles , to name but a few of his favourite cities . |
| 36 | Yet all we seem to have heard , either from a few of the more militant leading players or their representatives in recent months , has been the cry ‘ We want more . ’ |
| 37 | Let me outline a few of the obstacles : |
| 38 | These are but a few of the hazards that can wreck the look and expression of the choreographic design . |
| 39 | The above examples are only a few of those showing how conventional ports de bras can be changed . |
| 40 | Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine . |
| 41 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 42 | ‘ Quite a few of our customers have dogs and there are some large ones among them , although most of the ones who come in here are small . |
| 43 | Very few men do have any moments whatever , and for the benefit of such readers as have not sufficiently respected Mr Binyon for his , it would be well to set forth a few of them . |
| 44 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 45 | ‘ You can have a few of they . ’ |
| 46 | A few of its witticisms are unnecessarily provocative and should be censored . |
| 47 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 48 | A few of these examples come within the category Hughes calls ‘ dirty work ’ ( see Hughes 1958 , 1964 ) but certainly not all . |
| 49 | I knew a few of the Marines . |
| 50 | His words to the Commando Officer in the jeep were drowned by the crack of the 15 pounders as a few of them opened fire , the guns lurching forward as the shells sped off towards their target . |
| 51 | The constant mortaring and shelling of the area had dislodged a few of the corpses and the flies and mosquitoes were everywhere . |
| 52 | From the thicket I could see the bridge and to my amazement I could see Commandos marching in file across the bridge and coming slowly towards me , a few of them looking and pointing in my direction . |
| 53 | The first evening we arrived , after digging in , a few of us from Brigade H.Q took a walk through the village and found the local café . |
| 54 | As a few of us stand and look at the Germans , Mills Roberts appears with a few of his Officers . |
| 55 | As a few of us stand and look at the Germans , Mills Roberts appears with a few of his Officers . |
| 56 | They were a lot of car for the money , too , remember , with character and a few of the rough edges that are inevitable with a true specialist car . |
| 57 | And what 's really wrong with knocking a few of the rough edges off your partner ? |
| 58 | On the back of this leaflet , you 'll find a few of the projects we 're involved with . |
| 59 | Loneliness , fragile health and homelessness are just a few of the problems they face without our help . |
| 60 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Joe Connors , a dark little man who reached forward with spatulate fingers for the corkscrew , ‘ There 's only a few of us left . ’ |