Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Pamella flung a few things in a suitcase and scrambled off to Bali tout de suite , Fleet Street fanned out to play cherchez la femme . |
| 2 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 3 | Corbett whispered a few words and the friar looked up sharply and nodded . |
| 4 | It was an accident of course but old Colonel Saunchie got a few pellets in him . |
| 5 | Rugs employing this scheme are becoming increasingly rare and , although it may still be found on some workshop items , the only group to use it with any regularity are the Abadeh weavers of south central Persia , India and Pakistan make a few rugs in this design . |
| 6 | Edward made a few concessions . |
| 7 | WINDY Loch Assynt lies a few miles from the coast , near the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver ; surrounded by a ridge of mountains eleven miles in length , none of which drop below 2,000 feet , crowned by Sutherland 's highest peak , mighty Ben More Assynt . |
| 8 | Bernice staggered a few steps forward . |
| 9 | Garrison Savanah has a few tales to tell … he won the big race at Cheltenham 3 years ago and tomorrow the Gloucestershire favourite will be off and running for the big prize at Newbury |
| 10 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 11 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 12 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 13 | Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other . |
| 14 | Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later . |
| 15 | They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 . |
| 16 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Hill and Whitlow taking a few chances in their own half and finally Whitlow 's dispossessed and it comes to Collimore . |
| 18 | Bernice took a few moments break from her search to reach up and snap it off . |
| 19 | Marie took a few steps towards him . |
| 20 | I think the time has come to ask Meredith Putt a few questions . ’ |
| 21 | No less devotion was brought to four songs by Joseph Marx , and although the rather overheated style of Nocturne elicited a few smiles ( Parsons performing prodigies in representing the burgeoning June night ) there was a touching ecstasy in Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt which was delivered absolutely from the heart . |
| 22 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 23 | In fact Leamington got a few things wrong , because they 've now been taken over . |
| 24 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 25 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
| 26 | But although Wordsworth contributed a few lines , he quickly realized that attempts at collaboration were once again bound to fail : ‘ … |
| 27 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 28 | Later that month , the former Rangers and Scotland forward Andy Cunningham was appointed manager of Newcastle and although he had played alongside Gallacher in the Scotland team a few years before , there was no great bond between the two . |
| 29 | After a while Bambi and Nell returned alone , and Bambi with an unexcited word of gratitude to Nell walked a few paces forward and stopped beside her son , who had done nothing to comfort or help his sister and was now sitting alone . |
| 30 | Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels . |