Example sentences of "a [noun] with a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 2 | In which there 'd be a picture and a description with a few words . |
| 3 | Not just the clink of milk bottles , but more strangely , the sounds of a group with a few pintas of potential . |
| 4 | The result is an approximate history of the site : for example , the site may begin with the construction of a farmhouse with a few outbuildings , then a large barn was built , alterations were made to the farmhouse , two of the outbuildings were demolished , and so on . |
| 5 | Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation . |
| 6 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 7 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 8 | The tail was just a stump with a few feathers beginning to show through , rather like the beard stubble that appears when someone has n't shaved fur a couple of days . |
| 9 | We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution . |
| 10 | Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it . |
| 11 | You 're not going to brush aside a tradition with a few facts . |
| 12 | ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night . |
| 13 | Still , he prepared her cigarettes for her at least , filling a saucer with a few butts and plenty of ash . |
| 14 | They were put into a little room , no more than a cubicle , where there were two kitchen-chairs and a table with a few magazines . |
| 15 | There was , however , a market with a few shops , since discontinued : a new church , St Aldhelm 's , now demolished ; tennis courts , shrubberies , a zigzag path along the cliff , later obliterated by landslips ; and sheltered stone seats known as ‘ All the year round ’ . |
| 16 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 17 | And I got a packet with a few quid in it that day which my mother er appreciated . |