Example sentences of "[adv] with a few [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
10 | Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach . |