Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [art] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
| 2 | I put a few pink flowers on the plant and remember that I must n't overdo this |
| 3 | I know a few good boozers over there as it 'appens . |
| 4 | I like a few active steps , like running round the room or touching toes . |
| 5 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
| 6 | ‘ Please forgive me , Mrs Hatton , if I ask a few routine questions , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I do a few preliminary sketches and spend a number of hours finding suitable reference material . |
| 8 | I have a few close trusted friends and family , but I do n't open up my heart to all and sundry . ’ |
| 9 | I have a few minor caveats about Windows for Dummies . |
| 10 | However in this section I include a few novel ideas . |
| 11 | For those of us with non-pedigree black moggies which sprout a few white hairs , it is comforting to think of their special markings not as some kind of mongrel flaw but instead as a vital and valuable relic of earlier days in the feline history of Europe . |
| 12 | He hit that big vehicle and then he hit me add a few other cars behind me . |
| 13 | If you make a few small holes in the container , it will help to ventilate it and allow small animals to get in . |
| 14 | and even if you do n't it 's gon na c you know And er you get a few choice words and then eventually you say Well well look we 'll go outside and sit outside for a few minutes and d and wait till you 've decided what and do n't forget i time you kn you kn |
| 15 | By starting later and doing it gradually you get a few extra weeks without the fuss and worry of having to give solids at all . |
| 16 | You get a few fucking with the chef . |
| 17 | If you 've a few grey hairs and want something more lasting try their colouring emulsion for grey hair which lasts two to three months . |
| 18 | You take a few green turns , |
| 19 | The place of the sandwich in a healthy lifestyle has been vindicated — as long as you follow a few simple guidelines . |
| 20 | Frankly , provided you follow a few basic rules ( see below ) , it really does n't matter . |
| 21 | Only because you see the few selected people but generally sports players are quite good looking . |
| 22 | Yeah , so you see the few selected ones that come from other schools and you instantly assume that their school must be much more er much better looking than ours . |
| 23 | If you have a few grey hairs and want to blend them in , lowlights are subtle with a natural result . |
| 24 | To minimise the chances of failure , make sure you have a few big Mobs rather than lots of small ones . |
| 25 | ‘ We want a few good skirmishers . ’ |
| 26 | To keep the 1:6 cement/ballast concrete level and consistent thickness , we put a few levelled pegs at the extreme sides of the pit for guidance . |
| 27 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 28 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 29 | We make up a story to cover the facts we do n't know or ca n't accept ; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them . |
| 30 | As one television executive put it : ‘ We do a few gay programmes , and will carry on doing them . |