Example sentences of "[vb -s] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's er wants a few more minutes so |
| 2 | She wants a few more screws in |
| 3 | A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations . |
| 4 | The RISC I instruction set contains a few simple operations which operate on registers . |
| 5 | According to the unions , however , it contains a few minor strings , but nothing like the substantial changes in working practices being asked for nationally by the employers . |
| 6 | The till girl drops a few non-essential items , like initialled and scented toilet paper into a reject box . |
| 7 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 8 | Film Revenge of killer bimbos Anne Billson writes a few new placards for the 'Basic Instinct ’ protesters |
| 9 | He has a few lucid moments every now and again . |
| 10 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 11 | Each day the retreatant has a few suggested passages given by his director who meets him once a day for sharing and reflection . |
| 12 | He still has a still has a few technical problems with his speeches , his voice is very thin , he falls away at the end of sentences and when he rises to a crescendo his voice is like the distance whine of an aeroplane engine but what he said was exactly what they wanted to hear a return to family life and strong law and order . |
| 13 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 14 | It is also approachable at the other end of the spectrum , which is filled by the middle-class peasant or designer-green who has a few pet animals to fit in with a rural lifestyle . |
| 15 | If it merely has a few extra grammes of plutonium squirrelled away ( something explicable as an oversight — or the ‘ oops ’ factor ) , then it might be ready to end its quarrel with the rest of the world in return for a deal that could even bring diplomatic recognition from America , together with trade and aid from South Korea and Japan . |
| 16 | Shops : none but the campsite farm has a few limited supplies . |
| 17 | He has a few sharp words to say about smoking on page 18 — definitely NOT an ingredient of a healthy lifestyle in his professional book . |
| 18 | But now , for the man who serves the famous … it 's back to serving the public of Swindon … after all John Reynolds has a few more strings to his bow . |
| 19 | He has a few more shocks coming his way yet . |
| 20 | And Dave Wotherspoon has a few more tricks up his sleeve , too . |
| 21 | Faye still has a few more days to consider the amniocentesis . |
| 22 | No there seems no logic in taking a , a long barrelled weapon er in as much as the team leader perhaps has a few more responsibilities than the other officers have and I would be going forward to handcuff whoever was in that bo er in that bedroom . |
| 23 | The same sort of EQ and similar electronics are going to produce a marked sort of family resemblance , but the VG-30R has a few sound characteristics of its own . |
| 24 | He has a few basic routines which he sticks to . |
| 25 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 26 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 27 | ‘ It needs a few more minutes , so I think I 'll go upstairs , ’ she announced , throwing Luke a cool glance . |
| 28 | Architect Robert Luna 's remodelling of the second floor possesses a few postmodern touches here and there , such as angular cutouts in gallery walls , but it is otherwise a straightforward design in which many of the massive spaces remain daunting for viewer and smaller artworks alike . |
| 29 | While the Inspirals are pure entertainment , their slide show features a few disturbing images — witness Enoch — and lyrically they go where no other ‘ Manc band ’ has ever been before . |
| 30 | For example the system developed by Earnest ( 1962 ) extracts a few primitive measures such as differential vertical extent , closed loops and a count of horizontal centreline crossings . |