Example sentences of "[vb pp] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
| 2 | In the area in which we are interested , there was a ‘ Sutton Garage ’ and a ‘ Sutton Depôt ’ , the latter actually being located a few yards across the boundary into Carshalton . |
| 3 | So you 've obviously dropped a few marks on that . |
| 4 | I 've lifted a few sacks of taters in me time , but I do n't reckon to lift thee ! ’ |
| 5 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 6 | Perched a few feet from the top of the 1,000ft Glenshane Pass is one of N. Ireland 's most famous pubs , and probably also ’ its ’ highest , The Ponderosa . |
| 7 | The strike was averted a few days before the scheduled date , after Confindustria , yielding to pressure from the government as well as from the unions , agreed to resume pay negotiations in the sectors concerned , and from June 1 , 1991 , to enter into negotiations on a new wage bargaining and indexation system . |
| 8 | The new , Kixx-produced packaging tells you all you need to know about the controls and special weapons ; it even included a few tips on baddie bashing , but gives no idea as to how you came to be doing it or why ! |
| 9 | The decanter , diminished by Timothy Gedge , still contained a few inches of amber liquid . |
| 10 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 11 | The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt . |
| 12 | Amelia had left off quoting from the wit and wisdom of her favourite mass murderers , done a few lines of cocaine , and started to whizz around the room . |
| 13 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 14 | Now you say well why do a U-turn I see no reason why because they done a few U-turns on the child benefit they done a U-turn , they picked it up and then blocked it . |
| 15 | Bob , Bob , for a bit and he done a few miles on it and then he sold it to somebody else in the garage . |
| 16 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
| 17 | To show you what I mean , I have selected a few names at random from my local telephone directory and listed them , together with the image which sprang to my mind ( although yours might be completely different ) . |
| 18 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 19 | ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ’ is a poem in Wordsworth 's loftiest philosophical manner , and a triumphant affirmation of God 's creative and restorative power at work in nature . |
| 20 | A brief excursion in July 1798 provided Wordsworth with an opportunity to summarize these new ideas in Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey , on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour , July 13th 1798 . |
| 21 | Collision fenders were bracketed a few inches below the ends of the baulks . |
| 22 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 23 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 24 | On Boxing Day I had accepted a few spoons of gravy , but only after considerable coaxing from Mick , having refused it twice already . |
| 25 | He has also missed a few internationals through injury . ’ |
| 26 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 27 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 28 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
| 29 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
| 30 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |