Example sentences of "they [art] few " in BNC.

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1 He asked them a few times .
2 ‘ You only have them a few years , after all , ’ his mother cried .
3 Or rather , he could make them , but just did n't feel like abiding by them a few hours later .
4 In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice !
5 ‘ They spend their lives sewing shirts in dark attics , and their employers throw them a few pence for their pains ! ’
6 In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine .
7 It had to be faced , they were a selfish pair , and she had no intention of upsetting Agnes 's comfort , or her own , to save them a few pennies .
8 They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains .
9 The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it .
10 I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away .
11 They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier .
12 A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town .
13 I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much .
14 PAGE 3 girls apparently are feeling the chill and quite unable to earn the sort of mega money available to them a few years ago .
15 If you live in the Wallingford area and have a railway interest perhaps you might like to join this enthusiastic group and give them a few hours of your time .
16 BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger .
17 Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified .
18 I must admit , we joined them a few moments later for a well-earned cuppa after our day 's exertions .
19 Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously .
20 If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans .
21 It took them a few moments to find it .
22 Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ?
23 It gusted through the council estate they were now in , picking up sweet papers and whisking them a few yards down the street .
24 ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’
25 It took me right to the McDarroch days as he fished out one forceps after another , opened and shut them a few times then tried them on me .
26 ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’
27 That would take the smile off their faces all right and give them a few seconds relief .
28 When teachers give them a few simple objects ( cardboard boxes , old clothes , bits of material , and the like ) which could be the basis for playful construction , the children do n't know what to do .
29 Having 2 ex-county players on the team has also been very worthwhile with helpful tips being tried out every week ( as the Institute chaps will tell you , comparing our game with them a few weeks ago and the Charity Match just played — sorry David what was the score … ? )
30 With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) .
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