Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 2 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 3 | A preliminary clipping usually takes place during the course of the knotting , when the weaver cuts the pile yarn to an approximate length after he or she has completed a few rows , but the final clipping is a highly skilled job , which , if badly done , can ruin months of work . |
| 4 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 5 | The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI . |
| 6 | Finally , since 1989 , DGX has granted a few scholarships to specialise in restoration and conservation . |
| 7 | An initial inspection of the loco , still in impeccable condition externally , has revealed a few problems and it is hoped that the Standard will be back in service sooner than the two to three years expected for overhaul . |
| 8 | Dana has missed a few fittings , but the earth wo n't stop turning and I 'm sure she 'll turn up for the next one . ’ |
| 9 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 10 | Even in our championship winning year we failed to beat the ‘ elite ’ sides in the league and although Wilko has made a few changes to the squad we still have basically the side and thus the same problems that have cost us dearly in the most important games . |
| 11 | As Montag begins to realise how wrong his community is , he starts to steal a few books rather than burn them all . |
| 12 | ‘ Les has had a few problems but he could do very well alongside Deanesy . ’ |
| 13 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
| 14 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 15 | Arrange to visit after the programme has had a few weeks to run . |
| 16 | I am a bit of an oddity here and this has opened a few doors for me . |
| 17 | Our press stories in general and working with Keith now over and also the launch of Dare which has got a few problems er are there any other major |
| 18 | He has got a few bruises . |
| 19 | He has got a few bruises . |
| 20 | The Chancellor has shifted a few factors around , that 's all . |
| 21 | He has played a few games and had received treatment . |
| 22 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 23 | And that has ruffled a few feathers at Shire Hall . |
| 24 | At just 7 stone 7 , Sam Benham wo n't be rocking the Oxford boat , but her call up as cox has caused a few ripples and waves down on the Thames . |
| 25 | Mudhoney 's move from hardcore grunge to quite melodic ( with a serrated edge ) pop has caused a few followers to bail out in search of more ‘ serious ’ stuff . |
| 26 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 27 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 28 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 29 | Fiat , which has lost a few employees in Italy 's corruption scandals , issued a ‘ code of business ethics ’ . |
| 30 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |