Example sentences of "a few [noun] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat there for a few moments inhaling the smoke . |
| 2 | Dr McNab had Come to the door of his ward for a few moments to watch the heating of the bath-water ; then with a sigh and a shake of his head he had retired inside again . |
| 3 | We sat in the jeep for a few moments watching the column as it disappeared along the very dusty road , and was soon out of sight , after passing Sulnier 's farm . |
| 4 | A few showers restore the green to west Mediterranean islands , and the sea 's still warm enough for swimming . |
| 5 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 6 | They were probably derived from some sort of segmented worm ( annelid ) — a few scientists adopt the view that different arthropods may have come from different and separate worms , independently , which became ‘ arthropodized ’ by acquiring an external skeleton . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We were billeted in the Grand Hotel , the massive Victorian pile which dominated Scarborough in turreted splendour from its eminence above the sea , and the big dining room was packed with several hundred shouting airmen , The iron discipline was relaxed for a few hours to let the Yuletide spirit run free . |
| 9 | Only a few reports concerned the fate of oesophagitis , and then with relatively short follow up , although the typical patient is young or middle aged and thus has a life expectancy of several decades . |
| 10 | ‘ Afraid your lords and masters will fire you if you allow me a few minutes to put the subject on hold ? ’ |
| 11 | Newly renovated , the Red Eagle is a comfortable and well run hotel offering excellent facilities , set conveniently just a few minutes form the centre of the resort . |
| 12 | A murder trial jury has been told that a teenager who was left in charge of a baby girl for a few minutes killed the child by picking her up and smashing her head against a wall . |
| 13 | If the ingredients are still hot just place under a hot grill for a few minutes to brown the top . |
| 14 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
| 15 | It took me a few minutes to get the hang of things when I put the Legend through an amp . |
| 16 | Back on the A34 we circled a roundabout a few times to test the road-holding . |
| 17 | A few texts discuss the position in Roman law . |
| 18 | The response was excellent ; quite a few regionals published the recipe itself and two or three of the writers on the nationals featured that vegetable in their own favourite recipes . |
| 19 | A few stars pricked the sky , and in the warmth of the car it seemed that she and Luke were the only two people in the world , travelling through a hushed darkness together . |
| 20 | He stabbed a few keypads to make the point . |
| 21 | 3 Write a few sentences to tell the story of what happens in Part One . |
| 22 | A few replies contained the comment that families were sometimes reluctant to reveal information to their doctor . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought a quick gallop , a guzzle of the local tincture and a few snaps to record the event for posterity . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry to keep you waiting , ’ he went on , ‘ but those of you who have been here before will know that I like to say a few words to break the ice before we get down to the real business of the weekend . |
| 25 | There were a few trees edging the pavement , but they were an urban stock , twisted and stunted by city poisons . |
| 26 | A few examples illustrate the range of difficulty . |
| 27 | Conventional programs ( Fig. 2 ) embed the knowledge in the instructions , making it very difficult for all but a few programmers to understand the logic of the program . |
| 28 | A few computers allow the programmer to create his own iterated instructions by providing an " iterated execute " or " repeat " instruction , which operates as follows : Execute the ( perhaps modified ) target instruction Update an index register or the execute modification field Conditionally repeat Again the conditional repeat is based on a count set up by the repeat instruction , or on the setting of a flag by the target instruction . |
| 29 | Apart from a few policemen patrolling the quayside , the event was unremarkable . |
| 30 | AS 70,000 East Germans streamed through Leipzig on Monday night in the largest demonstration the German Democratic Republic has ever seen , a few marchers approached the line of the workers ' militia units , on standby in a side-street there . |