Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 2 | No it does n't hurt to write a few letters . |
| 3 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 4 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 5 | Now I want to lose a few pounds , ’ he says . |
| 6 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 7 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 8 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 9 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 10 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 11 | As Montag begins to realise how wrong his community is , he starts to steal a few books rather than burn them all . |
| 12 | Well , let's look for a few moments this morning at one such incident when Jesus did do it and it 's in er , Mark chapter four , I want to read a few verses from there , Mark chapter four . |
| 13 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 14 | And I want to keep a few things to remind me of Billy . |
| 15 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 16 | TWO scientists from Stirling University expect to shed a few tears at tonight 's United Kingdom premiere of a Hollywood film that tells the extraordinary story of Augusto and Michaela Odone 's love for their son Lorenzo . |
| 17 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent is also expected to have a few tricks up its sleeve for this week 's roll-out . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to have a few words with you , John . |
| 19 | If you only want to raise a few seedlings in spring , and provide a humid atmosphere for some cuttings later , an unheated propagator will be adequate . |
| 20 | Because crossing the stitches causes some resistance you will need to knit a few rows , then ladder down at least one stitch at both sides of the number of stitches marked for cabling . |
| 21 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 22 | If you only want to take a few doors or windows back to bare wood for repainting , there are many other cheaper guns that would do the job . |
| 23 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 24 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 25 | Finally , I want to say a few words about the problems with our present laws , especially in relation to welfare . |
| 26 | Finally , I want to say a few words about the assumption of " slowly varying currents " in connection with the last example . |
| 27 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 28 | What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ? |
| 29 | After the presentation of the well-deserved awards by the Sunday Times ' editor Andrew Neil , TEC director Les Bell rose to say a few words . |
| 30 | He bent to throw a few pieces of turf on the fire and was reminded that the locals called them sods of turf . |