Example sentences of "[verb] [art] few [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read the few lines through , then closed his eyes for a moment before reading aloud . |
| 2 | Andrew was always with her , walking a few steps out of her reach . |
| 3 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 4 | A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 6 | I had a huge living room that needed repainting and so I invited a few friends along , asked them to bring a paint-brush each and I supplied the food and drink . |
| 7 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think we must get that husband of yours to lop a few branches off outside the window before you go blind , ’ he says to Rose , to demonstrate the terms he is on with her . |
| 9 | By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again . |
| 10 | The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer . |
| 11 | Lorne tried chanting a few limericks over and over , but we never saw the eels again , though we dived there often . |
| 12 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |
| 13 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 14 | If I did it all day I would n't like it — woman 's work is never done , she 's on the go all the time — even before you go to bed , you 've still got something to do — emptying ashtrays , wash a few cups up . |
| 15 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 16 | The Chancellor has shifted a few factors around , that 's all . |
| 17 | Erm what I need to do now is just so I 'm gon na have to cross a few things out . |
| 18 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 19 | He noticed a dark bulk lying a few yards back along the causeway . |
| 20 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 21 | Well , I may send a telegram if I can work a few days off at Athens . |
| 22 | Just relax , Nina , enjoy a few days off . ’ |
| 23 | but I 've had a few years out |
| 24 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've had a few numbers on . ’ |
| 26 | " It 's too bad of me , old chap , " he said , spraying a few matchsticks around and dropping flakes of tobacco on the stone flags . |
| 27 | You 'll make a few roubles out of that clock , old lad . |
| 28 | I try and rig a few wires up ! |
| 29 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 30 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |