Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few moments of Dr McNab 's saline injections Dr Dunstaple had begun to revive . |
| 2 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 3 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 4 | Conning a few pounds from Mr Yarrow and walking the streets held little appeal . |
| 5 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 6 | Here , in a role that might have better suited Peter Sellers , or , more authentically , Alberto Sordi , he goes through a few variations on Ben Braddock and Jason Fister , the agent in his first Italian misadventure . |
| 7 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
| 8 | Seems there are quite a few singers in New York already . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
| 10 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 11 | ‘ We would like to ask you a few questions about Andrew Livesey . |
| 12 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 13 | She put a few questions to Dr Scott . |
| 14 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
| 15 | At the time , he was sharing a house with two friends , writer-to-be Don Devlin and producer-in-waiting Harry Gittes on Fountain Avenue , a few streets from Sunset Boulevard . |
| 16 | You must surely have observed a few things about Fräulein Müller . ’ |
| 17 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 18 | ‘ Harford is one of the most under-rated strikers in the game , and undoubtedly he will cause us a few problems at Stamford Bridge . ’ |
| 19 | I suspect that for length of service a few others like Sir Alastair Burnet , Mike Neville and Stuart Hall run me pretty close . |
| 20 | If his language and intellectual categories are less startlingly novel today , it is because he , and a few others like Tom Nairn , have made them familiar to us . |
| 21 | Sister said she had no work for me for a few minutes , so I could direct traffic for her whilst she had a few words with Dr Jones . |
| 22 | He would have liked to exchange a few words with Cedric Downes at Oxford — surely a man suffering from the same kind of trouble ? |
| 23 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 24 | Susan caught up with her after a few words with Mr Darling . |
| 25 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 26 | ‘ I said a few words to Miss Mallender — Miss Heather Mallender , that is — at her sister 's funeral , last year . |
| 27 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 28 | At the same time they might even pick up a few tips from Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram instead of trying to put them down . |
| 29 | A few yards beyond this , the tramway turned left to terminate a few yards into Thicket Road , by the Penge entrance of the Crystal Palace grounds . |
| 30 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |