Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences . |
| 2 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 3 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
| 4 | In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp . |
| 5 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |
| 6 | A simple solution is to use an old film canister and carry just a few hooks leaving the open box at home out of harm 's way . |
| 7 | He would let her father row him down the lake and dangle out a few lines to see if a tickle of fish would tickle his mood . |
| 8 | Practise reading it and think up a few sentences to explain why you have chosen it . |
| 9 | For one thing , I like to play off the cuff now and again , and pull out a few surprises . ’ |
| 10 | Make a note of their position and come back a few weeks later to collect them when they are fully grown . |
| 11 | After that you 'd think that Cov would man-mark Wallace out of the game and throw forward a few players . |
| 12 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |