Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you got to try out a few of these nice new cars yourself . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 3 | More tips next month , and if anyone wants to send in a few , go ahead — you might even get your name in print ! |
| 4 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ We would like to go over a few points relating to the Livesey murder , ’ Bragg said evenly . |
| 6 | What I would like to do with the financi financial commentary , is because it is , is an historic document , I would like to pull out a few plums which we can team brief . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 8 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 9 | I shall begin to put out a few delicate hints . |
| 10 | Those who have read Mr Clark 's prose with mounting impatience might like to point out a few lessons to him : 1 ) mention the book early on ; 2 ) avoid the clichés ; 3 ) forswear dodgy phrases , like ‘ pied-piper 's trail of opportunity discarded ’ , which really mean very little . |
| 11 | Eventually when he 'd exhausted his immediately available epithets and had to pause to think up a few more off-beat ones , I interrupted . |
| 12 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 13 | the P.N.M. would have to sort out a few more issues of contention ; a Federated West Indies for instance ; constitutional reform ; should they let the U.S. retain its naval base at Chaguaramas ? and , are we a socialist movement ? |
| 14 | I will try to set up a few … safeguards in case our fears are proved true . ’ |
| 15 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 16 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 17 | Moreover , between tending the wounded , the doctor managed to fend off a few shots at snipers . |
| 18 | Credit must be given to the home keeper Alan Godden who had to pull off a few good saves . |
| 19 | She had to lift up a few loose strands from her neck when Lowell fastened the beads . ’ |
| 20 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |
| 21 | After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers . |
| 22 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 23 | They need to sort out a few things and they 'll be very competitive . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ My father wanted to check out a few interesting investments abroad , and I fancied a change of scene , ’ she said with forced nonchalance . |
| 25 | These rugged limestone reef hills are not really typical of the dark , rolling peaty landscape of the Pennines , but even the gritstone moors have managed to throw up a few fine hills . |