Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 2 | No it does n't hurt to write a few letters . |
| 3 | Smash Hits will want to know about your make-up or your boxer shorts , Melody Maker leans towards aesthetics and primal therapy and the local Argus might just want to know a few biographical details and where your next gig is . |
| 4 | When an idea starts , perhaps only a slogan or a headline will be produced , but in the end the writer is going to have to write all the words in the ad ( though most clients tend to write a few themselves , sometimes over the agency 's dead body ) . |
| 5 | I 've changed your body , and I tried to rewire a few of your neurons , but I 've left you alone where it counts . ’ |
| 6 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 7 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 8 | Now I want to lose a few pounds , ’ he says . |
| 9 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 10 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 11 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Smith will need to find a few more if he is to become Prime Minister . |
| 13 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 14 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 15 | Such a service is particularly useful for people who only want to sell a few privatisation shares . |
| 16 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 17 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I am happy to try to answer a few more Hon. Member 's queries . |
| 18 | As Montag begins to realise how wrong his community is , he starts to steal a few books rather than burn them all . |
| 19 | I struggled with a makeshift skipping rope and tried to do a few more press-ups each day ; it was not much fun . |
| 20 | The local battalion have rung to give a few more details of the incident . |
| 21 | Well , let's look for a few moments this morning at one such incident when Jesus did do it and it 's in er , Mark chapter four , I want to read a few verses from there , Mark chapter four . |
| 22 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 23 | And I want to keep a few things to remind me of Billy . |
| 24 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 25 | But before leaving this matter of persistence I want to mention a few special cases of persistence on a finer scale . |
| 26 | I just want to spread a few good words and hopefully raise a few pounds for the three groups that I am involved with , ’ says Rosemary . |
| 27 | They forget to mention a few other little things . |
| 28 | TWO scientists from Stirling University expect to shed a few tears at tonight 's United Kingdom premiere of a Hollywood film that tells the extraordinary story of Augusto and Michaela Odone 's love for their son Lorenzo . |
| 29 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent is also expected to have a few tricks up its sleeve for this week 's roll-out . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to have a few words with you , John . |