Example sentences of "[verb] [art] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cramming her worn , out-moded bonnet on her head , she stuffed the few belongings she had unpacked back into the portmanteau . |
| 2 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 3 | Intrigued , the aliens monitored the few lyrics they could hear rising up from this outdoor roller ritual . |
| 4 | William Horsley , 83 , was punched and kicked by the thug who snatched the few pounds he had on him . |
| 5 | there were n't many that sort , that felt the way I did , I mean I hated him , I really did and when he turned round and he said ooh Keith wants a few words I said to Elaine , look shit 's gon na be it , |
| 6 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 7 | Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the |
| 8 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 9 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 10 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 11 | ( 24 ) He put a hand under her elbow and helped her stumble the few steps she had to take . |
| 12 | He noticed that someone had moved the few horses they had managed to round up , and sent two men to find out where they had been taken . |
| 13 | THE GUEST WHO COMES TO STAY FOB A FEW DAYS You have to know , or find out , what foods your guest likes and loathes — otherwise the entire stay will be an embarrassing misery . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll just fetch a few things we might need . ’ |
| 15 | I turned it over , glanced at the Hungarian stamp , and read the few words I had scribbled to Stephanie , only three weeks earlier . |
| 16 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 17 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 18 | If they read a few textbooks they would find out that more major medical advances have depended on animal studies . |
| 19 | I have enclosed a few things I would like you to look at when you have a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ And when you do , ’ Shales said , ‘ tell him I 've got a few items he may recognize . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been on telly just about non-stop for 12 months , but I 've got a few ideas I have n't had time to work on . ’ |
| 22 | I 've got a few days I can go into work disco poster , I 've got ta do this and that . |
| 23 | Never mind you can play the Bare Naked Lady thingummybobs and er then hopefully we go oh he 's in the shop he 's had a few customers we 'll get back to John a bit later . |
| 24 | When I 've had a few drinks I get a little argumentative . |
| 25 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 26 | After waiting a few minutes she collected the pictures from the slot outside the booth , put them in her bag without looking at them and hurried home . |
| 27 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 28 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 29 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 30 | Assuming the Boss and Big Boss can score a few wounds you are in with a good chance of winning the combat . |