Example sentences of "[pers pn] a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went back to my doctor after two months and said well I feel a bit better , can I a few more months . |
| 2 | How do you mean when I was young , Douglas , I 'm not old now , not so old a dog could n't teach a young pup like you a few new tricks . |
| 3 | But there are some standard arrangements which may give you a few helpful ideas . |
| 4 | ‘ And what I want right now , ’ said Damian , ‘ is to ask you a few personal questions . ’ |
| 5 | Repayment mortgages payable over 25 years can be extended to 30 or 35 years , earning you a few extra pounds a month because you will be paying less for longer . |
| 6 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 7 | There , that manoeuvre is known as gybing but really it 's as simple as that , sailing downwind you do n't have to change course very often , unlike when we 're sailing upwind with tacking but we need to show you a few more demonstrations about it in quick succession . |
| 8 | ‘ I was going to give the two of you a few more minutes out there , but if you 've exhausted old times you can come and meet Luke Scott . ’ |
| 9 | If you do n't , I 'll give you a few more scars to remember me by ! ’ |
| 10 | Then call CLARENCE on and our staff will ask you a few brief questions as to the type of problem and its location . |
| 11 | ‘ Before we retroscend allow me a few prefatory remarks on your pants . |
| 12 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ a fresh voice drawled , ‘ but you can tell me a few preliminary conclusions . |
| 14 | ‘ I want more than your body , ’ he said quietly , ‘ though lord knows it 's given me a few sleepless nights ! |
| 15 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 16 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 17 | You could n't give me a few more equations just |
| 18 | Only three days earlier , however , he had written to another correspondent in less drastic tones : " give me a few more years and you should sense a new influence on classical studies " . |
| 19 | . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’ |
| 20 | who is a tough and widely experienced chap and he gave me a few more ideas to mull over . |
| 21 | When teachers give them a few simple objects ( cardboard boxes , old clothes , bits of material , and the like ) which could be the basis for playful construction , the children do n't know what to do . |
| 22 | Perhaps she can sell them a few sleeping policeman , I ca n't remember her saying so as such . |
| 23 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |
| 24 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 25 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 26 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
| 27 | ‘ Give him a few more minutes , ’ Desmond advised . |
| 28 | She suddenly wished that she had Finn here so that she could tell him a few more home truths . |
| 29 | Stuart bellowed his words as if answering a court-martial and failure to enunciate perfectly at top volume would earn him a few more years in the glasshouse . |
| 30 | Give him a few more seconds , then turn the car round . |