Example sentences of "[verb] a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 2 | A bonfire on the beach tonight when it 'll be too dark for my eye to catch a few stray words of love . |
| 3 | Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ? |
| 4 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 5 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 6 | Plain text could get us a long way , but words are an imprecise medium , and pictures and other symbolic descriptions often help ; so we shall need a few mathematical ideas and notations . |
| 7 | We 'll need a few lucky breaks on the way to do it , but it 's not impossible , ’ said midfielder David Phillips . |
| 8 | If you practise in an area where rentcharges are common you 'll also need a few more forms ( see your law stationer 's catalogue or the Land Registry list of official forms ) dealing with these . |
| 9 | You 'd need a few more clues to establish her Oxford connections … but in fact she was a student here at Somerville College , winning a first class degree … and she was born in the city , here at Brewer Street . |
| 10 | He forbore to add that Poll might have earned a few more blows as the result of Sally-Anne 's intervention , to prevent her from involving anyone else in future . |
| 11 | It had once been possible to trust a few Fascist families , especially those who had sons who had deserted from the army on 8 September ; but that was changing . |
| 12 | The pension had attracted a few more guests than Herr Zimmerman 's complaints had given him to expect . |
| 13 | And if Dorothea is too good to accept a few semi-precious brooches and earrings , if you are too sensitive to wear them , very well , I will have them and I will wear them . |
| 14 | So we have to discuss the B-H curves , and I will include a few more things , but you must realize that there is a lot more to it . |
| 15 | Although Emes designed a few minor buildings , such as a lodge at Attingham and a greenhouse at Penrice , his role as an architect is not significant . |
| 16 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 17 | Wiv all the money we 'll make from the match day market and the find the lady stall in the boardroom — oh sorry , no , you 've already got one — we 'll be able to go out and buy a few proper players . |
| 18 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 19 | Like Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) , she emphasizes the need for top executives to establish a few clear signals in order to create a felt need for change , and to use ‘ prime movers ’ in the organization both to ‘ talk up ’ the new strategy and to ensure that the signals or symbols developed to establish the new direction are present in all important interactions — i.e. reflected in reports , agenda for meetings , key events , and so on . |
| 20 | Expect a few small roach and skimmers on pole and squatts when after the thaw . |
| 21 | Because I retained a few French words and phrases and could make myself understood in his language he had assumed a much wider knowledge than I possessed . |
| 22 | Even this simple job can be a pitfall for those who do not pay due attention , so let's discuss a few salient points . |
| 23 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 24 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 25 | ‘ We want a few good skirmishers . ’ |
| 26 | They want a few more minutes . |
| 27 | We want a few less troublemakers |
| 28 | The Secretary of State for Energy , on the Monday of the Labour party annual conference , phoned a few national newspaper editors to talk the Conservative party out of a general election this month . |
| 29 | I think it 's er wants a few more minutes so |
| 30 | She wants a few more screws in |