Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the few holes they had dug and refilled would not affect his crop and , more importantly , they were the best ‘ scarecrows ’ he 'd ever known ! |
| 2 | So he sat still and let her talk , murmuring answers to the few questions she asked him , trying to memorize details that might be important . |
| 3 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 4 | It did n't take her long to pack the few clothes she would need , even though her mind was far away in the past . |
| 5 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 6 | I put away the few clothes I had brought , together with photos of Mother and Father , and another one — a head and shoulders portrait of Clare , looking happy and unconcerned about her legs . |
| 7 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
| 8 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 9 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 10 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |
| 11 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 12 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 13 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 14 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 15 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 16 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 17 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 18 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
| 19 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 20 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 21 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 22 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 23 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |
| 24 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 25 | He was 128th in driving accuracy , 180th in sand saves , 192nd , which is to say dead last , in sub-par holes ( percentage of eagles and birdies ) , 191st ( or second-to-last ) in scoring average , dead last in both putting on the few greens he hit in regulation and in total putts ( which means that when he missed a green , he seldom got it up and down ) , and dead last again in shooting birdies on par-3s , par-4s and par-5s . |
| 26 | He noticed that someone had moved the few horses they had managed to round up , and sent two men to find out where they had been taken . |
| 27 | One of the few skills I possess is the ability to type with ten fingers . |
| 28 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
| 29 | During the few minutes they chatted , apart from mentioning he was divorced , he did not bring up Liza 's name . |
| 30 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |