Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 2 | DURING THE UUAC GENERAL STRIKE THESE AIRCRAFT WERE TOUCHING DOWN EVERY FEW MINUTES AT ALDERGROVE AIRPORT IN THE LARGEST AIR AND SEA MOVEMENT OF TROOPS UNDERTAKEN BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SINCE THE SUEZ OPERATION TWENTY-ONE YEARS EARLIER . |
| 3 | Listen to talks — read articles — then jot down a few headings on what message is being conveyed . |
| 4 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 5 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 6 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 7 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 8 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 9 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 10 | Out into the spooky snicket and down a few yards towards the churchyard . |
| 11 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 12 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 13 | It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory . |
| 14 | Write down a few examples of when you last ( i ) provided food , clothing or other " necessities " for the addict in your life because he or she can not afford them . |
| 15 | I jotted down a few extracts from The Boyfriends . |
| 16 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 17 | Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider . |
| 18 | Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters . |
| 19 | DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss . |
| 20 | I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry . |
| 21 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 22 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 23 | perhaps a few blows to the side of the head with an axe ? |
| 24 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
| 25 | Even so a few hints about the frailty of Rose 's nature might not come amiss . |
| 26 | There had to be more to it than simply filling in a few spaces with a ballpoint ; greater symbolic weight was required . |
| 27 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 28 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 29 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 30 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |