Example sentences of "[verb] a few [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes yes we found a few flowers an |
| 2 | Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins . |
| 3 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 4 | When they stopped , sometimes at the junctions between seasons , Tallis could feel the flow of time , the great spiral storm that curled around some focus a few days ' riding to the north . |
| 5 | If they take their work home with them , maybe they 'll do a few hours ' work off the mains . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 8 | She walked rapidly back to the hotel and collected her car from the parking area , then drove back and parked a few cars ' lengths from the boatyard . |
| 9 | The media would still be able to cover current stories but within a longer-term , in-depth perspective so that Ethiopia or the Lebanon , Westland or nuclear disarmament do not simply occupy a few weeks ' worth of front page/main bulletin coverage per year . |
| 10 | Some of you listen some of you have got a few minutes erm some of you have got a few minutes obviously erm only I 'm not going to start anything . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 13 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 14 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 15 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 16 | Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ . |
| 17 | I mean , he made a few comments a but nothing that anybody could tell . |
| 18 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 19 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 20 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 21 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 22 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 23 | Get a few Pils ' cabinets |
| 24 | There followed a few minutes ' discussion where it seemed Cicely Hepwood had been all set to cancel an arrangement she and her husband had to visit a sick friend in hospital that afternoon . |
| 25 | After his second retirement eight years later , he was again ‘ let down lightly ’ , by doing a few days ' work a month on market research . |
| 26 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 27 | Erm , well we 've got , I 'll take a few notes erm during this , during the course of our conversation , I 'll take them away , study them in complete confidence and come back to you next week with my recommendations . |
| 28 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 29 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
| 30 | It was arranged that he would take a few days ' supply of stoma bags with him and he was given a list of equipment he would require . |