Example sentences of "[pron] and a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday I and a few of my colleagues spent a day 's retreat at Compton Durrville , a Franciscan retreat centre in this diocese . |
| 2 | ‘ I and a few close friends knew , ’ Maggie said . |
| 3 | and obviously you and I and a few others , but erm |
| 4 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 5 | Me and a few short stories . |
| 6 | I had one ball-point pen with me and a few in the Land Rover . |
| 7 | ‘ When I went to Grimsby , in the war , there was just me and a few students — invalided servicemen , some nice girlies just out of school — things were lovely . |
| 8 | There are seventeen of them and a few sketches . |
| 9 | ‘ You and a few thousand other women . |
| 10 | The boat went on without her and a few seconds later went down under the water . |
| 11 | There was a good deal of howling from her and a few overripe adjectives , but she was better padded than the seats of the Transit . |
| 12 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 13 | He and a few of his colleagues were inspired by the early struggles of Solidarity in Poland a decade ago . |
| 14 | There was much to discuss , including Tom Poole 's proposal , in the end gratefully accepted , that he and a few friends should supply Coleridge with an annuity of £35 or £40 as a ‘ trifling mark of their esteem , gratitude and admiration ’ . |
| 15 | At a birthday party yesterday — on Kensington Woof Gardens — he and a few brothers and sisters handed £200,000 to Guide Dogs for the Blind for a new training centre in Southampton . |
| 16 | He and a few friends discovered that there was big money to be made by injecting humour into an area traditionally ignored by the British — teaching staff how to be more effective . |