Example sentences of "[vb base] be a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
2 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
3 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
4 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
5 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
6 | Working with one set of tattered plans there have been a few problems along the way . |
7 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
8 | But recently , including today 's CBI distributive trades survey , there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things really might be getting a little better . |
9 | because I can imagine , looking at rehearsals , what we need are a few sort of easy things to start and end rehearsals with , or for rehearsals when we 're a bit thin on the ground , er |