Example sentences of "[verb] with [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | To return to the offending nettle ( Urtica dioica ) or , it too had its uses : Martin Martin noted that in Skye ‘ the tops of nettles , chopped small , and mixed with a few whites or raw eggs , applied to the forehead and temples by way of a frontel , is used to procure sleep ’ . |
| 2 | The organic layer was washed with H 2 O , dried over anhydrous Na 2 SO 4 , mixed with a few drops of concentratd NH 4 OH , and evaporated in vacuo . |
| 3 | It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released . |
| 4 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 5 | The wood was added to the aquarium and a few strategically placed plastic plants were added with a few well-rounded , safe , large pebbles . |
| 6 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
| 7 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 8 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 9 | This great plate — adorned with a few ‘ hot spots ’ , where plumes of magma have spurted to the surface randomly to form such agglomerations of islands as the Hawaiian chain , the Marquesas , the Tuamotos , the Tubuais and that tiny British possession the Pitcairn group — is almost universally deep , has a floor covered with siliceous oozes and red clays and is dotted with millions of volcanic abyssal hills discovered by the trailing of arrays of echo-sounders . |
| 10 | South-East Gully can be entered from a lower point , so dispensing with a few feet of scrambling above the climbs . |
| 11 | I could have done with a few . |
| 12 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 13 | Leading international companies are discussing the latest recycling technology , showing what can be done with a few old bottles … and a little imagination . |
| 14 | Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point . |
| 15 | Half way through the Blackeyes saga , it looks as though we are going to have to make do with a few set pieces of one-to-one hostility . |
| 16 | We could do with a few more young men like Charles . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He showed them Viet Cong a thing or two , I could do with a few like 'im round 'ere . ’ |
| 18 | But we could all do with a few less stuffed velvet Loch Ness monsters and dismal cafeterias that smell of incontinence . |
| 19 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
| 20 | Pook 's Common could do with a few more people , do n't you think ? |
| 21 | For the historian of modern urbanization , scores of cities are available for direct inspection , while the ancient historian has to make do with a few fortuitous survivals . |
| 22 | Amazing what you can do with a few nails , is n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | Yeah the T V could do with a few big ones , alright okay body stopper , they want you to have a T V on and be tempted , depends on what , how it went , to ask them to turn it off but if you ca n't that would upon them then you 'll have to work with it because what you do n't want to be seeing is okay they are there , you 're here and they 're concentrating on this . |
| 24 | Yes that is , yes , could do with a few more mind you , but still , that looks nice there |
| 25 | Place one of these on the slide and cover with a few drops of water . |
| 26 | ‘ That was a game we should have won after taking a two goal lead , and I think it 's still rankles with a few of the lads . |
| 27 | Regular users of it wrap the edges round wooden batons , secured with a few tacks , leaving these to rest on the ground , and rolling it up on the batons when the season is over . |
| 28 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
| 29 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 30 | Supported by four Landrovers and equipped with a few flimsy spares , they sported jeans and shorts rather than jodhpurs , tee-shirts instead of ties and jackets , while on their heads they wore cheches — and definitely not pith-helmets. but if the style was different , the spirit was certainly reminiscent of those pioneer days . |