Example sentences of "[prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 32 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 33 | Its report was sent to my supervisors in February 1988 , and after a few minor changes the college 's final approval was received in May . |
| 34 | Her mother came to inspect her , and after a few minor adjustments declared that she was satisfied with her appearance . |
| 35 | After a few minor changes , the final documents were officially sent out . |
| 36 | " The Chairman after a few opening remarks intimated to the Meeting that the Debate would be taken up by the Revd. |
| 37 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 38 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 39 | In Syria , special forces were moved into every major town soon after the onset of war with orders to shoot to prevent further demonstrations after a few spontaneous outbursts of public protest occurred in the east of the country . |
| 40 | Any selection of a few new titles , therefore , is bound to be especially arbitrary ; I can only plead that I 've made it as wide as possible . |
| 41 | Spanish Masonry had its ultimate origins in the deistic humanitarianism of a few eighteenth-century esprits forts . |
| 42 | With a little bit of orchestration , and the application of a few time-tested psychic tricks , I will soon be ready to steer her into a shocking spur-of-the-moment theological and sexual conversion . |
| 43 | The congregation of St Nicholas consisted of a few poor people from the neighbourhood and otherwise of less poor people from various parts of the city or from Birkenhead across the Mersey . |
| 44 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 45 | One unexpected spin-off was the growth of a few genuine friendships . |
| 46 | Meanwhile pacifists were generally content with the abstract moralizing suggested by the Manchester Guardian 's opposition to the formation of a Liberal Foreign Affairs Committee on the grounds that the ‘ success or failure [ of foreign policy ] depends on the application of a few simple principles to facts which as a rule are not very numerous nor very complicated . ’ |
| 47 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 48 | Eventually this ‘ top down ’ approach can lead to the level of a few simple English statements or a small amount of programming code . |
| 49 | This could be replicated , at least superficially , by boiling in a concentrated caustic soda solution to give a white patination ; the addition of a few rusty nails would then turn the patina brown . |
| 50 | We are not talking of a few fanatical terrorists , we are talking of a nine million-strong nation in the heart of the Balkans . |
| 51 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 52 | He called for action to tackle the difficulties without ‘ shaming the reputation of this country and infringing the civil liberties of a few helpless people whose only sin has been to seek freedom and our protection ’ . |
| 53 | Ironically , the actions of a few Western governments , led by the United states and including Britain , could finally kill off the nodule-mining industry before it even begins to operate , and all in the name of protecting the industry . |
| 54 | A new generation of middle level developing countries is facing the difficult transition from being exporters of a few traditional commodities and receiving most external finance in the form of official aid to a varied pattern of trade and production , combined with use of more commerical loans or investment . |
| 55 | IBM 's talk of a few orderly spin-outs could prove naively optimistic and it could be forced to jettison whole businesses that , under more favourable conditions , it would wisely prefer to retain , imperfections and all . |
| 56 | With the exception of a few intervening slabs , the routes are always steep , rarely less than overhanging or more than 25m , on near perfect rock and well equipped with bolts and chains for ‘ moulinette ’ . |
| 57 | If that means throwing hundreds out of work , or depriving families of a few extra pounds by delaying interest rate cuts , then so be it . |
| 58 | The fitting of a few extra valves solved the problem . |
| 59 | The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners . |
| 60 | As Veljanovski points out , ‘ if wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few rich landowners who buy Rolls Royces and caviar , then allocative efficiency will be consistent with the poor starving and the economy 's productive capacity channelled into the manufacture of these luxury items . |