Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Popular newspapers were able to find or invent a few examples of ‘ frivolous ’ applications for dentures or spectacles . |
2 | And they would all come through and stay a few nights with |
3 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
4 | The reason he slipped out was to phone and make a few arrangements for them . |
5 | But really most of them just want to travel and earn a few bob . |
6 | Even asset-strippers had to relax and pursue a few hobbies from time to time … |
7 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
8 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
9 | Erm I 'm just trying to think we really want to try and fit a few lessons into the holiday if you can it 's up to you fit in . |
10 | Okay , let's let's try and clarify a few points as we go along . |
11 | BELFAST jockey Pat McWilliams is beginning to settle down and ride a few winners since he returned from England before Christmas facing an uncertain future . |
12 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
13 | There they have been exploiting the advantages of low pollution , the ability to stop and restart every few hours — sorry , every few yards — and electric cars may be introduced as much for their ability to produce low pollution , low noise , and as petrol becomes more expensive and electric cars become more widespread and better engineered and more efficient and cheaper , and more socially acceptable , then I think we will see electric cars . |
14 | Occasionally , when she came over from England with Neil , they 'd go out and take a few pigeons on a Sunday morning , but his heart was n't in it . |
15 | They are encouraged to try and take a few steps back and be a little more objective with themselves . |
16 | All he had to do was get up and walk a few steps and he could escape it all . |
17 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
18 | About fifteen minutes later Sergeant Briggs entered Jane 's room , we 'll take him back to the station and tomorrow we 'll go around and ask a few questions . |