Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ninagawa stops the action every few minutes to make tiny adjustments . |
| 2 | His presence in the pitch darkness was marked only by the dull glow of a cigarette , its red tip pulsing into light every few moments to reveal the black pencil of the Colonel 's moustache as he sat , immobile behind his desk , reflecting on the previous day 's visitor . |
| 3 | In Moma Parsheen 's visionless eyes a few tears welled . |
| 4 | After looking out into the daylight , it took my eyes a few seconds to adjust . |
| 5 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |
| 6 | It took Marie a few seconds to realize who Gary was : nobody , not even the teachers at school , called Gazzer by his real name . |
| 7 | I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’ |
| 8 | It 's in books a few books have it in it . |
| 9 | In practice a few frogs have been produced by killing the egg nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation , and replacing it with the nucleus from a cell of the gut of a tadpole . |
| 10 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 11 | D. A few farmers specialise by growing crops of high value . |
| 12 | In the early days a few Members complained about the new lighting , but some adjustments were made and the Committee reported no further objections on these grounds ( although a survey of MPs attitudes following the introduction of television , which was conducted by the IBA , showed that 59% of the respondents found the lighting in the Chamber too bright , compared with 31% before the experiment began ) . |
| 13 | In consequence a few sessions proved unproductive , and items had to be attempted on successive occasions before she was satisfied with the results . |
| 14 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 15 | Yeah , I went out with Shelley , with Warren a few times read read yeah ? |
| 16 | Penry 's been on the phone every few minutes to see if you 've arrived . |
| 17 | Well at that age a few months makes a difference . |
| 18 | As we enter the trees a few shots ring out . |
| 19 | It is clearly very important to make sure that at learn some of your visits are completely unhurried and timed to suit her convenience , for to many elderly people a few hours relaxing in the company of a son or daughter they love can be an oasis in the desert of their week if they live alone . |
| 20 | At later stages a few problems did develop , but they involved only a small minority of the cases . |
| 21 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 22 | It took Greg Farrel a few days to realise he was being vetted , both socially and professionally . |
| 23 | It took D'Arcy a few seconds to connect the familiar face in the unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 24 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 25 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 26 | Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest . |
| 27 | The explosion lifted the ship a few feet clear out of the water , smashing the superstructure against the low tunnel roof even as the hull burst open with a blaze of fire . |
| 28 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 29 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
| 30 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |