Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam Baker QC ( almost ) from number 113a had suggested that he ‘ bring along a few bottles of my Australian Chardonnay ’ but no one could face the prospect of being talked through another glass of uniquely flinty , resonantly expressive Murray River Chardonnay by Sam Baker QC ( almost ) . |
| 2 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |
| 3 | These arc just a few examples . |
| 4 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 5 | I saw her knock back a few glasses but never saw her tight ! |
| 6 | I normally lose just a few pounds , Bobby . |
| 7 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 8 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
| 9 | About 20 trainees may be brought together for about ten days spread over a few months , interspersed with more in-bureau case study exercises and observation . |
| 10 | I put away the few clothes I had brought , together with photos of Mother and Father , and another one — a head and shoulders portrait of Clare , looking happy and unconcerned about her legs . |
| 11 | The leader let off a few rounds which went bellowing over our heads . |
| 12 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 13 | Is it enough to assume you are comparatively fit because you walk up a few stairs or stretch and bend a little as you go about your household chores ? |
| 14 | I jumped in , let out a few expletives and was out again just as quickly . |
| 15 | During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist . |
| 16 | Wait here a few days , then Newman will contact you , again providing he agrees . |
| 17 | put quite a few lines in there |
| 18 | → We receive quite a few letters from people who have suffered from the indifferent attitude which seems to prevail in many music shops . |
| 19 | Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences . |
| 20 | If you ca n't get more heat up there , let us move the games room down a few floors . " |
| 21 | Chase up a few stories . |
| 22 | Clear up a few unsolveds , eh sir ? ’ |
| 23 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
| 24 | I find an old plastic carrier bag , tip out the few bits of string and wire it contains and replace them with a handful of rusty bolts from the biscuit tin . |
| 25 | In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp . |
| 26 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 28 | At least confident that Spouse will enjoy , and probably pick up a few tips from , biography of Hitler . |
| 29 | ‘ Instead of grabbing a tin of soup the book will say , ‘ Pick up a few carrots , a leek , chop them up and throw them in water , add a dash of cream , a few leaves of chervil , and you have something homely and delicious that you have made . ’ |
| 30 | As soon as it is well open , and perhaps already dropping pollen grains on to its own stigma and petals , pick up a few grains with a small paint brush , and transfer them to the stigma of the female . |