Example sentences of "[adv] with a [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 2 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 3 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 4 | Add it to the icing sugar , together with a few drops of yellow food colouring . |
| 5 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 6 | It was obviously a recently fledged bird , still with a few tufts of down adhering to its head , but of its parents there was no sign . |
| 7 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 8 | Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach . |