Example sentences of "be [verb] a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 2 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 3 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 4 | ‘ We both know the gentleman concerned and we 're not very happy about the way things are going so we 're making a few enquiries of our own . ’ |
| 5 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 6 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
| 7 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 8 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 9 | Bob said yesterday : ‘ I 'll be sharing a few gags with the lads . |
| 10 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |
| 11 | Greg Downs will be having a few words with his defence about long high balls … corners and free kicks … |
| 12 | Greg Downs will be having a few words with his defence about long high balls … corners and free kicks … |
| 13 | You will be asked a few questions about your state of health and a drop of blood will be taken from your finger to make sure that you are not anaemic . |
| 14 | the third was a blockbuster … a rocket of a free kick … 3-1 to Peterborough … manager Denis Smith could be making a few changes before long … |
| 15 | Her twice-weekly parliamentary Question Times , where she would be thrown a few soft-balls by her own side , enabled her to shine at the dispatch box . |
| 16 | If she could get to Bart 's before the day staff had begun their routine , she might be allowed a few moments with Amy . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 18 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 20 | A training centre which specialises in courses on drilling and production technology for the oil industry has itself been learning a few lessons over the past 12 months . |
| 21 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 22 | After the business of the day and the more important business of the evening meal , the inhabitants of Roziac were enjoying a few hours of leisure in the open air . |
| 23 | Visibility on both motorways was down to 50 yards but some drivers were speeding a few feet from the vehicle in front . |
| 24 | In the area in which we are interested , there was a ‘ Sutton Garage ’ and a ‘ Sutton Depôt ’ , the latter actually being located a few yards across the boundary into Carshalton . |
| 25 | Collision fenders were bracketed a few inches below the ends of the baulks . |
| 26 | In the course of filling his lungs he felt as if he were rising a few inches off the ground . |
| 27 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 28 | They had left the restaurant and were taking a few steps on the front . |
| 29 | you were asked a few questions about the contingency fund , was setting up the contingency fund , had it got any connection at all with the Daily Telegraph article ? |
| 30 | Additionally , in this particular case there is another problem — since the shot is being taken a few minutes before sunset , the light is weak , and demands a long exposure . |