Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 2 | All I 'd need is a few fags to keep me awake and I 'd have my foot down all the way . |
| 3 | By the time Folly opened her eyes , Luke 's lips were on hers , and all she could see was a few inches of gold-shadowed cheek and an ear . |
| 4 | There may have been a few villages abandoned in the aftermath of the plague , particularly those on poorer soil , as their inhabitants moved to better lands to take up holdings which had fallen vacant . |
| 5 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 6 | up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you . |
| 7 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 8 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |