Example sentences of "with a few [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
2 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
3 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
4 | Beginning with a few notes on the back of an envelope , the Bill expanded rapidly . |
5 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
6 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
7 | Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside . |
8 | We shall preface our discussion with a few remarks about the nature of information and about the transformations which are undertaken in the mind of the skilled reader . |
9 | The general theory of relativity links the gravitational force and the structure of space–time , and so we should begin with a few remarks on the gravitational force and then explain how it was that the classical or Newtonian view of gravitation came to be seen as unsatisfactory . |
10 | Test for toxicity with a few Daphnia in the container , as they are more sensitive to toxins than most freshwater fish . |
11 | The 80R is essentially a twin channel , 80 watt amplifier with a few departures from the norm that are all its own . |
12 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
13 | The Chairman opened a well-attended meeting with a few words about the gratifying growth and vigour shown by the Society in its first year . |
14 | with a few interruptions in the middle with people coming in , we 've still got interruptions now with people talking , Ross stand by me |
15 | Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country . |
16 | After the season the show would tour the country with a few troupes from the original cast and local children appearing in the large scenes . |
17 | By 1985 the average had dropped but the spread was narrower , with a few exceptions at the extremes ( the Manchester Evening News with 300,000 and the Darlington Evening Echo with 12,000 ) . |
18 | With a few exceptions along the coast ( such as Seaford in the 1770s ) it proved more or less impossible in Sussex where the land was largely enclosed already and the soil of much of the county ill-suited to highly profitable wheat farming ; so there was little of the trauma produced elsewhere by the restructuring of the rural landscape . |
19 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |