Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 2 | Christine Mills lived a few hundred yards away . |
| 3 | If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga . |
| 4 | Having your own original opinions was clearly a major flaw in a mirza and , just to be on the safe side , the Mirza Nama offers a few acceptable opinions for the young gentleman to learn by heart and adopt as his own . |
| 5 | While Pamella flung a few things in a suitcase and scrambled off to Bali tout de suite , Fleet Street fanned out to play cherchez la femme . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 7 | Boycott 's 63 held the innings together , Gooch and Gower got a few , Botham walloped 37 off 39 balls and 208 seemed a reasonable total on a pitch helpful to bowlers . |
| 8 | Brenda reckons having her own bike has a few benefits . |
| 9 | Willie 's story starts a few years before his first Open triumph , and bears out his theory that his golf destiny was ‘ written in the stars ’ . |
| 10 | London and Liverpool continued to build flats and from 1933 ( when the Act became widely operative ) many cities built a few hundred flats in large estates : by 1939 Newcastle had built 500 , Leeds nearly 1,000 , Liverpool over 5,000 and Manchester 9,000 ( Ravetz , 1974a ) . |
| 11 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 12 | You 're feeling exceptionally lucky so this is the best of times to launch a few other thoughts . |
| 13 | It was a trip she would rather have forgotten — the cold was biting and the whispering patter of rodent feet made her heart jump every few minutes — but she knew she would have to face it again when she and Guy escaped from the keep . |
| 14 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 15 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 16 | Corbett whispered a few words and the friar looked up sharply and nodded . |
| 17 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 18 | Certainly not as well as her books sold a few years ago . |
| 19 | Surf from giant waves crashing a few feet away splashed his face . |
| 20 | It was an accident of course but old Colonel Saunchie got a few pellets in him . |
| 21 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 22 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 23 | Rugs employing this scheme are becoming increasingly rare and , although it may still be found on some workshop items , the only group to use it with any regularity are the Abadeh weavers of south central Persia , India and Pakistan make a few rugs in this design . |
| 24 | Edward made a few concessions . |
| 25 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 26 | There was also a touch of home — one of the Highlanders produced a few newspaper cuttings from the British Press . |
| 27 | The Conceicao programme has a few hospital beds but its main functions are to run community health centres in favelas and a large primary care clinic in the main hospital which caters for the local population . |
| 28 | WINDY Loch Assynt lies a few miles from the coast , near the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver ; surrounded by a ridge of mountains eleven miles in length , none of which drop below 2,000 feet , crowned by Sutherland 's highest peak , mighty Ben More Assynt . |
| 29 | Bernice staggered a few steps forward . |
| 30 | She had her blood test a few weeks ago . |