Example sentences of "[verb] a few [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 2 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 3 | But the dressmaker had obviously decided it was too plain and added a few frills to liven it up a bit . |
| 4 | If nothing catches the eye , walk a few blocks to West 47th street , between Fifth and Sixth Avenues , to browse at the Gotham Book Mart ( ’ Wise men fish here , ’ says the sign ) , which , for 70 years has specialised in literature and arts . |
| 5 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 6 | Perhaps I can give a few pointers to anyone just starting up . |
| 7 | She had dropped stitches continually in her knitting ( she was knitting a yellow angora sweater for Victoria ) and started whenever the shop-bell jangled or the parakeet muttered a few words to itself . |
| 8 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 9 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the reception desk , he murmured a few words to the elaborately uniformed commissionaire and was shown respectfully towards the lift . |
| 12 | These points are not laboured but there is enough here to suggest a few topics to which the inexperienced paddler should devote further thought and reading . |
| 13 | I should like to suggest a few alternatives to the MICHAEL DOUGLAS , FUCK YOU , RACIST , SEXIST , ANTI-GAY school of sign-writing . |
| 14 | The curator of Edinburgh zoo has proposed adding a few specimens to the zoo collection . |
| 15 | Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop , etc. would n't go amiss . |
| 16 | Whether we should be saying and saying District Council be requested to amend the local plan as suggested in paragraph two four two nine five and then nu number two would be there adding a few words to the original number one . |
| 17 | ) Test the reagent by adding a few drops to small crystals of Na 2 SO 4 or K 2 SO 4 in a watch glass . |
| 18 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |
| 19 | A Siddiqi speech usually includes a few references to the ‘ corrupt bogheap of western culture ’ . |
| 20 | Add a few mushrooms to the meat before baking under a pastry crust . |
| 21 | Add a few drops to your bath or massage the oil into your skin . |
| 22 | The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual . |
| 23 | You can reckon to need twenty to support a 100-yard net , allowing a few spares to be on the safe side and to allow for breakage . |
| 24 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 25 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |
| 26 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 27 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 28 | Get out your grammar books and I will explain a few things to you that will help your conversation if you can get them into your so stupid heads . |
| 29 | Come back in a fortnight and we 'll check its progress , but you 'll find it takes a few weeks to really heal properly because we use that toe a great deal for balance . ’ |
| 30 | I will conclude this chapter by considering a few objections to the account of authority suggested above which challenge its general orientation . |