Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] with [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told Arts Scene : ‘ I do my waffle with a few little inserts from tapes . ’ |
| 2 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 3 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 4 | She just wanted to hear her hero 's lovely voice , see those flashing eyes and bolster up her imagination with a few of his telling phrases about ‘ El Amor ’ . |
| 5 | Having filled their buckets with bright red liquid ( thanks for the colouring ) contestants in Blind-man 's buff had to rely on shouts from supporters to get back to their corner with a few drops left in the buckets — no thanks to members of the Summer Fayre committee who kept moving the obstacles — just in case it good too easy you understand ! |
| 6 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
| 7 | She began her meal with a few hors-d'oeuvres , with the caviare one tasting particularly good . |
| 8 | Many Creole users , both black and white , evoke a " black stereotype " by sprinkling their speech with a few Creolisms , but these are nearly always lexical — tags like man , guy , star , spar , y'know , or cho , or swear words like raas , turaatid , bomboklaat . |
| 9 | On several occasions the obituarists have been poised , ready to send the man to his grave with a few solemn words of recognition . |
| 10 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
| 11 | ‘ He wrecked your act with a few well-chosen words that would have slid straight off your back if anyone else had said them . |
| 12 | We shall preface our discussion with a few remarks about the nature of information and about the transformations which are undertaken in the mind of the skilled reader . |