Example sentences of "[adv] with a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 2 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 3 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 4 | erm Anybody that 's well-organized , good at clerical operations , preferably can type a little bit even though , if only perhaps with a few fingers , erm would make a perfectly computer operator for a small firm . |
| 5 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 6 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 7 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 8 | All the big names were there : Scudamore , Pipe , Nicholson , Dunwoody , along with a few fortysomethings helping raise money for the Spastics Society , the main beneficiaries of the day . |
| 9 | Anyway , he turned up at my house sometime later and , sure enough , I had n't finished it — so we sat down and did it together , along with a few others while we were in the mood . ’ |
| 10 | What was clear from my own research and experience was that all of these ‘ crazes ’ or student ‘ tides ’ , along with a few others , existed side by side in 1988 . |
| 11 | The European Year of Tourism officially ended at a conference in Budapest , at which the HCIMA presented and participated in the workshop on training and management along with a few others , including the President of the Committee for Vocational training in Germany and the Deputy Secretary of the World Tourism Organisation . |
| 12 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone falls in love with the Masai , you know , ’ she says as we , the elderly general and the attentive subaltern , along with a few askaris , attend the old lady at her departure . |
| 14 | The worst problem is that the combination of silt , moss and leaves , along with a few chippings washed off of flat roof , can cause soakaways to get blocked , thereby reducing the flow at times when it 's needed most . |
| 15 | Boats heading out past the Needles found just odd cod along with a few whiting , rays , pout and dogfish . |
| 16 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 17 | Though separated from his Guard , Napoleon apparently remained in company with Soult , Bertrand and Drouot who , together with a few officers and an escort , were seen at Quatre Bras at 1 a.m. on 19 June . |
| 18 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 19 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 20 | The first issue includes a memoir of John Banting by Peter Wills , an interview with Desmond Morris by Patricia Scanlan , several pieces on Edward Roditi , an extract from a recently published book on Lee Miller and an appreciation of Lee Miller by her son Antony Penrose and various newly-written poems , together with a few illustrations . |
| 21 | But for the English the system of requisitioning , together with a few ships which might be built in both inland and seaside ports , and those constructed at Bayonne , were sufficient to meet most of their needs . |
| 22 | He delivered the letter , together with a few flowers he 'd nicked from a cemetery . |
| 23 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 24 | Add it to the icing sugar , together with a few drops of yellow food colouring . |
| 25 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 26 | Old Fishfinger is a regular visitor to the PFK offices , from which he occasionally manages to sneak away with a few reader 's queries . |
| 27 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 28 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But I 'll think I 'll just need to talk it over with a few people before we run it though . ’ |
| 30 | It was obviously a recently fledged bird , still with a few tufts of down adhering to its head , but of its parents there was no sign . |