Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let me leave you with a few wise words . |
| 2 | See if you can get our people to introduce you to a few American officers ; broaden your mind . |
| 3 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll like this one , ’ they leer , before showering me with a few priceless gems from the treasury of homophobic humour . |
| 5 | At the very least , he might leave them with a few choice phrases to remember him by . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 8 | Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |