Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular newspapers were able to find or invent a few examples of ‘ frivolous ’ applications for dentures or spectacles . |
| 2 | Surely such lazy car drivers who park directly beside bus stops rather than walk a few yards to a shop , should be prosecuted before a fatal accident results from their thoughtless actions . |
| 3 | This is not a criticism of the theories in themselves , but if discourse analysis is to incorporate them , and to demonstrate their relevance to the language learner , it will need to test their value in interpreting language which has actually occurred ; to select what is relevant from context rather than invent a few elements of it ; to account for writing as well as speech , and to account for discourse where there is no constant feedback from the receiver who may not even be present . |
| 4 | And they would all come through and stay a few nights with |
| 5 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 6 | The reason he slipped out was to phone and make a few arrangements for them . |
| 7 | On the few occasions when Fernando had some pressing business to attend to she was able to put her own mind to work and make a few valuable contacts for the agency but the majority of her time was spent with her love . |
| 8 | But really most of them just want to travel and earn a few bob . |
| 9 | Even asset-strippers had to relax and pursue a few hobbies from time to time … |
| 10 | Wiv all the money we 'll make from the match day market and the find the lady stall in the boardroom — oh sorry , no , you 've already got one — we 'll be able to go out and buy a few proper players . |
| 11 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 12 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 13 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 14 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 15 | Erm I 'm just trying to think we really want to try and fit a few lessons into the holiday if you can it 's up to you fit in . |
| 16 | Okay , let's let's try and clarify a few points as we go along . |
| 17 | Let's let's try and clarify a few of these points . |
| 18 | BELFAST jockey Pat McWilliams is beginning to settle down and ride a few winners since he returned from England before Christmas facing an uncertain future . |
| 19 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 20 | Occasionally , when she came over from England with Neil , they 'd go out and take a few pigeons on a Sunday morning , but his heart was n't in it . |
| 21 | They are encouraged to try and take a few steps back and be a little more objective with themselves . |
| 22 | All he had to do was get up and walk a few steps and he could escape it all . |
| 23 | ‘ Although the heavy work is carried out by landscape contractors I love it when I can get out and add a few personal touches , ’ she says . |
| 24 | I 'm gon na try and get a few more of them that can dig . |
| 25 | and he starts going yes well I think we 'd better try and get a few As on there had n't we and |
| 26 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
| 27 | He could think of some people who 'd say she 'd told him nothing he did n't already know and offer a few hundred francs . |
| 28 | About fifteen minutes later Sergeant Briggs entered Jane 's room , we 'll take him back to the station and tomorrow we 'll go around and ask a few questions . |
| 29 | more and more saying look and let's try and kill a few less people . |
| 30 | I 'll stay here an' settle a few old scores with our precious Mayor an' all ! ’ |