Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries .
2 There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes .
3 So let me leave you with a few wise words .
4 See if you can get our people to introduce you to a few American officers ; broaden your mind .
5 However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’
6 ‘ You 'll like this one , ’ they leer , before showering me with a few priceless gems from the treasury of homophobic humour .
7 At the very least , he might leave them with a few choice phrases to remember him by .
8 Frequently , the mistaken belief is that counselling involves telling people what to do in a nice friendly way and involves educating them with a few pertinent facts in a clear , easily memorable , style .
9 I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words .
10 Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain .
11 A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower .
12 Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me .
13 Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig .
14 The only option is to rinse the board in water , dry it carefully and try to line it up again on the artwork , re-exposing it for a few more minutes .
15 ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments .
16 The track along Rhossili Down 's ridge top was rough and rocky , with a wild west sort of feel to it as a few hardy-looking cattle wandered about at will on the humped and pitted pastures to the right , which my map indicated are the remains of neolithic burial chambers .
17 This is how to do it with a few extra explanations to help you understand why you are making the movements — realising why levers move often helps to set the method in the mind .
18 The horse was totally confused by now and it eased forward in the shafts not knowing what to do next , until Broomhead reminded it with a few well-chosen obscenities .
19 The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements .
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