Example sentences of "[vb base] a few [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place a few pebbles in the bottom of the tube to aid drainage before inserting the clothes pole , umbrella etc . |
| 2 | Place a few stones at the bottom of small flowerpots ( or yoghurt cartons with a hole punched in the bottom ) . |
| 3 | Decent people moved out if they could , and the born-squalid moved in : the swamp of the slums spread a few years behind the speculative builder everywhere . |
| 4 | We put a few records on the jukebox and got him to mime along . |
| 5 | I just put a few things in the wrong place because I did n't read , you know , put them in too soon . |
| 6 | Into these they put a few handfuls of the clay and cow-dung mixture and then , adding water , kneaded it until it was liquid and as pale and frothing as freshly-churned cream . |
| 7 | She holds clinics in the areas in and around Cape Town — the shanty towns begin a few miles outside the city and the houses improve markedly the nearer the centre you get — and Rose believes that the fruits of her success will start to become evident in two or three years . |
| 8 | Before you complete your treatment , give a few doses of the centesimal to test if there is any remnant of the disease condition . |
| 9 | Add a few mushrooms to the meat before baking under a pastry crust . |
| 10 | While you 're clearing away old bedding plants , just push a few cloves into the soil , about 4–6in apart , with tips just below the soil . |
| 11 | Pour it into a pewter container and before it solidifies embed a few matches into the mixture |
| 12 | I just want to spread a few good words and hopefully raise a few pounds for the three groups that I am involved with , ’ says Rosemary . |
| 13 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 14 | Make a few slashes in the chicken flesh . |
| 15 | By 1800 the overseers , rate books indicate a few changes in the personnel living down Pig Street . |
| 16 | Punch a few holes in the container to allow a little ventilation . |
| 17 | Most smallholders will grow enough for their own use in the vegetable garden or plant a few rows with the swedes or mangolds in their roots field . |
| 18 | Eduard 's gentle insistence that we try a few gems from the cellars of Veuve Cliquot roughly translated into six bottles which rapidly topped up our reservoirs of ‘ entente cordiale . ’ |
| 19 | Into Boots , try a few eye-shadows on the back of my hand . |
| 20 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 21 | I recognise a few names on the list from previous lives especially Tim Kennedy ( Howya Tim ) . |
| 22 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 23 | Leave a few marrows on the plants to ripen fully , raising them up through the foliage into the sun by resting on bricks . |
| 24 | As usual , you mention a few concerns over the Big Mac index ( April 17th ) , and I wonder if you should not have mentioned another one . |
| 25 | Finally , there 's Sandra After Dark , a cable show that offers a twist on the chat format by inviting guests to drop by , take a few drinks from the topless waitresses , and talk casually , with the kind of natural interruptions that occur at a party . |
| 26 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 27 | Ah write a few letters to the hospital forty forty . |
| 28 | Had we reduced the dividend , our share price would have fallen sharply but , as I write a few days after the Annual General Meeting , the share price is a robust 180p — 26 times our earnings per share . |
| 29 | ‘ I have a few concerts in the Midlands , and I thought I 'd make my base somewhere close by until they 're over . |
| 30 | We have a few difficulties at the moment because the fungus does not impart resistance to wear , particularly from heavy armoured vehicles ! |