Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local battalion have rung to give a few more details of the incident . |
| 2 | So many of you have written in and asked for help with this game , I 've decided to print a few more hints ( thanks go to Richard Lupton , Mark Latham and Ewen Nicholson for this stuff ) . |
| 3 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 4 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 5 | The same argument can be used to add a few more names to the list , but the total is still not large . |
| 6 | The same argument can be used to add a few more names to the list , but the total is still not large . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got to lay a few more bets , ’ he said . |
| 8 | At this point the brothers have been known to make a few derogatory remarks about the ability of ‘ newfangled ’ machinery to make this fine distinction . |
| 9 | Frances Black had been touring with the traditional band Arcady but in 1990 was asked to do a few solo gigs in the north . |
| 10 | He also said we should be asked to give a few extra lectures , to a wider group of comrades , viz. teachers who did not have the opportunity to attend the course full time . |
| 11 | Well they 've certainly tried to make a few private sites out of public car parks in the Vale , I know that much . |
| 12 | France have been forced to make a few late changes . |
| 13 | Indeed , behind the fears and accusations which surrounded the villainous working-class ‘ scorcher ’ , his emancipated female accomplice , and the unruly cyclist juror we can perhaps sense the vaguely incoherent feeling that the democratic bicycle — which was now only upsetting the respectable pleasures of a quiet Bank Holiday weekend in the countryside — was representative of a force that might be calculated to upset a few other things as well . |
| 14 | So new phyla were created to accommodate a few bizarre animals . |
| 15 | However , she had managed to have a few brief words with Morrison and questioned him about Nigel 's movements over the weekend of his father 's death . |