Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A preliminary clipping usually takes place during the course of the knotting , when the weaver cuts the pile yarn to an approximate length after he or she has completed a few rows , but the final clipping is a highly skilled job , which , if badly done , can ruin months of work . |
| 2 | The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI . |
| 3 | Finally , since 1989 , DGX has granted a few scholarships to specialise in restoration and conservation . |
| 4 | An initial inspection of the loco , still in impeccable condition externally , has revealed a few problems and it is hoped that the Standard will be back in service sooner than the two to three years expected for overhaul . |
| 5 | Dana has missed a few fittings , but the earth wo n't stop turning and I 'm sure she 'll turn up for the next one . ’ |
| 6 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 7 | Even in our championship winning year we failed to beat the ‘ elite ’ sides in the league and although Wilko has made a few changes to the squad we still have basically the side and thus the same problems that have cost us dearly in the most important games . |
| 8 | ‘ Les has had a few problems but he could do very well alongside Deanesy . ’ |
| 9 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
| 10 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 11 | Arrange to visit after the programme has had a few weeks to run . |
| 12 | I am a bit of an oddity here and this has opened a few doors for me . |
| 13 | Our press stories in general and working with Keith now over and also the launch of Dare which has got a few problems er are there any other major |
| 14 | He has got a few bruises . |
| 15 | He has got a few bruises . |
| 16 | The Chancellor has shifted a few factors around , that 's all . |
| 17 | He has played a few games and had received treatment . |
| 18 | And that has ruffled a few feathers at Shire Hall . |
| 19 | At just 7 stone 7 , Sam Benham wo n't be rocking the Oxford boat , but her call up as cox has caused a few ripples and waves down on the Thames . |
| 20 | Mudhoney 's move from hardcore grunge to quite melodic ( with a serrated edge ) pop has caused a few followers to bail out in search of more ‘ serious ’ stuff . |
| 21 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 22 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 23 | Fiat , which has lost a few employees in Italy 's corruption scandals , issued a ‘ code of business ethics ’ . |
| 24 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 25 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 26 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 27 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 28 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 29 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 30 | Frankly , she looked as if she 'd got a few bundles of twelve-page letters stuffed up her woolly even now . |