Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I got right few bollockings . |
| 2 | I 'd like your guidance , if you can spare another few minutes . ’ |
| 3 | He 's forgotten those few minutes already , she thought resentfully while a state of depression began to grip her . |
| 4 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 5 | By way of answer Elinor 's mouth dropped another few notches . |
| 6 | Down came another few panes in the glasshouse . |
| 7 | While I just put these few beans on for dad that we do n't like in the microwave . |
| 8 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 9 | This would bring those few universities currently outside the BLDSC scheme into it very quickly . |
| 10 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 11 | ‘ That was the forty-seventh time we 'd done those few lines . ’ |
| 12 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |
| 13 | I think I must have known the truth about myself , in some deep part of my mind , when I first read those few pages of your book in my master 's study . |
| 14 | She 'd only had those few hours at The Haven . |
| 15 | As well as the series of long-distance trains which still run through Birmingham , the sub-sector now includes those few trains from the North West to Dover which run through Kensington Olympia in London , and the service between Manchester and Scotland via Preston and the West Coast main line . |
| 16 | But they produce virtually nothing and create precious few jobs . |
| 17 | And — I walked another few yards and craned my neck to see — no sign of life in the little bay beyond , with its boat-house and jetty . |
| 18 | Ray and I exchanged those few words , then climbed on towards the concrete parody of a summit . |
| 19 | They spent those few days in Blackpool and she last saw him as he left for duty from Chester station . |
| 20 | They spent those few days in Blackpool and she last saw him as he left for duty from Chester railway station . |
| 21 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 22 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 23 | You could have stolen another few minutes , ’ she said as if the evening had never happened . |
| 24 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 25 | A few pages would not suffice to describe an idea that he required a thousand pages of his Life Divine to illumine ; my purpose in giving these few passages is to point in one of the directions that the creative mind can travel to find other worlds of serene delight and magnificence . |
| 26 | Even those with many advantages will have precious few opportunities for issuing commands with the expectation that they will actually be executed . |
| 27 | ‘ I had hoped to make it this week , but it is still a bit sore and , with the British Open in mind , I felt another few days rest would be a safer precaution . ’ |
| 28 | The pain was n't so bad , it was the breathlessness , using all his energy to suck another few seconds of life from a chest that seemed to be wrapped in rusty iron bands . |
| 29 | Sample these few lines from ‘ Destroy Protect And Survive ’ : ‘ We train young men to drop fire from above/Yet their commanding officers wo n't let them write ‘ f— ’ on the side of their aircraft/Because it 's obscene . ’ |
| 30 | As she watched the door swing gently to a close behind him , Lindsey was left with the crazy feeling that she must have imagined those few seconds when something , even if she could n't put a name to it , had passed between them . |