Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 2 | Properties they say a few years ago are down by 25 to 30% , that with lower mortgage rates gives them a tremendous boost . |
| 3 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |
| 4 | She 'd just box a few ears , knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries , and chase them off . |
| 5 | She had her blood test a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | I ease a few points ahead , Martin puts in a break of 12 , I confidently reply with one of 13 , and even before we reach the colours Martin is beginning to display the McEnroic aspect of his game that always encourages opponents . |
| 7 | Having taken better care of it than Besty , or more accurately Besty 's hangers on , he invested some of it in a Sydney sports shop a few months ago , which he 'll run when he retires . |
| 8 | The late and much missed Fred Rival By the way I saw Mercy at the horse of the year show a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | Except ride round on a horse and pen a few articles when the mood took her . |
| 10 | If I did it all day I would n't like it — woman 's work is never done , she 's on the go all the time — even before you go to bed , you 've still got something to do — emptying ashtrays , wash a few cups up . |
| 11 | ‘ Wait a few moments yet . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ I broke my own 12-year-old British open ( short course ) record a few months ago , so how can anyone say that ? ’ |
| 13 | With a grand gesture of deliberately deflated gallantry , Lucker pulls on his damp swimming costume which he has had breeding in a sour plastic bag since his last swim a few days before . |
| 14 | Just relax , Nina , enjoy a few days off . ’ |
| 15 | Same day , same place for a previously unknown album of 60 drawings by Henri Fuseli , acquired by a London couple a few years ago . |
| 16 | An office colleague to whom I had told my story , went to Lochinver by train and bus a few months later and stayed at the same cottage . |
| 17 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
| 18 | He died of a second attack a few months later . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I try and rig a few wires up ! |
| 21 | You would be prudent not to pay deposits or any money in advance : many people have paid deposits to companies which have gone bankrupt a few weeks later . |
| 22 | Yeah I mean a few months ago I had absolutely no idea at all what |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The secure software company lost out on the US Navy 's Super Mini AFKAC 300 contract a few months ago after Planning Research Corp , the integrator and lead contractor , ‘ disinvited ’ it from its bid after teaming with Hewlett-Packard for the hardware , Sandone said . |
| 25 | The secure software company lost out on the US Navy 's Super Mini AFKAC 300 contract a few months ago after PRC , the integrator and lead contractor , ‘ disinvited ’ it from its bid after teaming with HP for the hardware , Sandone said . |
| 26 | These high earnings , however confounded the directors , as he achieved them while the markets were quiet , and while business was usually slow , at a period when morale was low from the market crash a few months earlier . |
| 27 | Get a few ranters together and they give you broth if you let them save your soul . |
| 28 | I get a few qualms just before the green light comes on . |
| 29 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 30 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |