Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it . |
| 2 | ‘ I only intend to stay a few minutes . |
| 3 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 4 | If you only want to take a few doors or windows back to bare wood for repainting , there are many other cheaper guns that would do the job . |
| 5 | Such a service is particularly useful for people who only want to sell a few privatisation shares . |
| 6 | If you only want to raise a few seedlings in spring , and provide a humid atmosphere for some cuttings later , an unheated propagator will be adequate . |
| 7 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 8 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm only going to trade a few horses , woman , nothing else . ’ |
| 10 | Prisons were only used to hold a few people until trial . |
| 11 | My father thought the sentence unjust because he had only agreed to buy a few bottles of bootleg whisky . |
| 12 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
| 13 | I only need to carry a few tubes of paint and some water in an old squash bottle , all packed into my fisherman 's box which doubles for a seat , and my paper masking-taped down to my board . |
| 14 | I only wanted to get a few comments about Froggy . |
| 15 | As fast as rubber wore from the tread , fresh rubber formed on the inside , while the whole tyre slowly expanded to keep the same size . |
| 16 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 17 | Those who broke into the inn tonight want to find the same treasure . |
| 18 | I just want to make a few pennies by selling some horseflesh . |
| 19 | In Long island , New York , another teenage boy was critically injured trying the same thing . |
| 20 | just wanting to check a few angles . |
| 21 | It would probably to appropriate for me to er second the motion in Welsh er , but as you 're and neither the English Welsh I would just like to say a few things , one , to express the appreciation of my council for the and secondly , |
| 22 | I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended . |
| 23 | I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just going to take a little time to put into operation . |
| 25 | So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate . |
| 26 | Just remember to take a few tins of things . |
| 27 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 28 | The to infinitive in sentences such as ( 21 ) — ( 25 ) above seems to involve the same mechanism of representation . |
| 29 | Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference . |
| 30 | I generally ask to have a few kicks before a big game , ’ Fox said . |