Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking . |
2 | Doing his best to stay awake , he chatted to Mills until satisfied that the other was convinced of his academic credentials and then , to get rid of him before Syrian George arrived to transcribe the night 's tapes and give the game away , sent him over to see Hurley , who wanted to know if Mills , in the course of his travels in and out of Lebanon for Newsweek , would like to shoot a few pictures for the DEA . |
3 | I should like to suggest a few alternatives to the MICHAEL DOUGLAS , FUCK YOU , RACIST , SEXIST , ANTI-GAY school of sign-writing . |
4 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
5 | I 'd like to take a few moments of your time … |
6 | ‘ But first I 'd like to say a few words about myself . |
7 | Erm , Mr would like to say a few words about the conference overall , er sorry about , yes the conference . |
8 | Erm I would like to say a few words about the Fire and Rescue Service , er the Fire Cover Review Panel er which rests erm with couple of months before Christmas er it 's first meeting , received a report from the Chief Officer that in restructuring the Fire Service to get better use out of it to er spread the cuts could find savings of up to nine hundred thousand pounds in that process and they are friends in the Labour , Liberal Democrat groups have simply taken the good aspects of that the plus side of it and rejected the side what faces the side anyway . |
9 | Yeah , if they come up to you with a microphone and say would you like to say a few words for the television programme yourself |
10 | I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended . |
11 | I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended . |
12 | But I think that in this company I can dare to make a few observations without being thought altogether gaga . |
13 | ‘ Did you remember to cut a few inches off the exhaust-pipe ? ’ |
14 | He had waited until the sentry reached the tower at the end of his beat , knowing , after watching the man from the bailey , that the guard would pause to exchange a few words with another man-at-arms before they separated to retrace their steps . |
15 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
16 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
17 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
18 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
19 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
20 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
21 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
22 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
23 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
24 | The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt . |
25 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
26 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
27 | If the table of the guitar has ‘ bellied out ’ you may also have to shave a few millimetres off the bottom of the saddle to achieve a lower playing action . |
28 | Because of the visits to the footplate to see the controls , and also the food cooked traditional style on the shovel , most of the people at the party will have exchanged a few words with Roger and gained an impression of the sort of cheerful , obliging chap he was . |
29 | Though participants have said that they find these quizzes enjoyable , they have not been well supported by comparison with the more usual lectures and no further quiz is planned for the moment , though I shall try to keep a few questions in hand in case a speaker is delayed or fails to arrive for some reason . |
30 | You must surely have observed a few things about Fräulein Müller . ’ |