Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 2 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 3 | Windsor Davies has appeared in a few but he 's er not one of the regular ones . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to put in a few of those brutal German proverbs that do n't mean anything . |
| 5 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 6 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 7 | Given the party 's pledges on pensions , defence , law and order , and other statutory commitments , particularly on social security , this meant that spending cuts would have to fall in a few areas , notably housing . |
| 8 | Im happy for us to stick with the present team ( when DOL fit ) , unless we start to make obvious cock ups in one postition. the team looks balanced and functional as it is … just need the forwards to start knocking in a few more goals … |
| 9 | Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words . |
| 10 | Miki managed to slip in a few ‘ wise words , matey . ’ |
| 11 | It really took hold in a few hours . |
| 12 | ‘ With the money I 'm prepared to pay you for your half of the house you could buy a more than adequate little base for yourself — and still have change left to indulge in a few luxuries . ’ |
| 13 | Since women had for centuries been instructed to use the masculine possessive pronoun when referring to the whole human race , why should n't there be some belated corrective action , even if it did stick in a few ( masculine ) throats ? |
| 14 | Then start feeding in a few amendments . |
| 15 | ‘ The only difference between the lineouts this year and last is that you can get penalised in a few more areas . |
| 16 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 17 | I hope he can start knocking in a few goals because we need players who want to play for the club . |
| 18 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 19 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 20 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |
| 21 | For those bogwarts who 're still stuck , I 've thrown in a few tips this month . |
| 22 | Flowers of emerald and trees of silver decorating a ground made of powdered gold had changed in a few helpless throbs into body-crushed vegetation , stained ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 23 | Next morning , after a 9.15 breakfast , he discussed with Jones his ideas for a speech he had to make in a few weeks ' time at a Literary Fund dinner . |
| 24 | Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches . |
| 25 | ‘ Without their local knowledge and contacts it would have taken years for us to achieve what we have managed in a few months , ’ said . |