Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 2 | It 's got you need to write a hundred words or less what you want to be older and plans for the future . |
| 3 | But there are other less obvious savings which can be taken into account if you are prepared to write a few letters and fill out a form or two . |
| 4 | His legal advisers are anxious to establish a functioning police and judiciary system so that Somalis can begin to administer themselves — and thus bring to an end the violent anarchy that has caused the death from famine of up to 400,000 people . |
| 5 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Delays are unlikely to exceed a few minutes while capacity is maximised . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 9 | But the woman is also trying to sell a dozen letters and postcards which , she claims , Andrew sent her when he was away at sea . |
| 10 | There is clearly enough to conceal a few mysteries as well . |
| 11 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |
| 12 | whatever you want to do , but it 's not worth doing anything else other than we 're going to play a few games but they 're |
| 13 | She was obliged to wait a few minutes while a Land Rover was being manoeuvred into the empty space beside her and then , with a start , she saw the driver . |
| 14 | But jobs were hard to find and he decided not to resign then but to wait a few weeks until he found another job . |
| 15 | Ring up and ask , though it 's best to wait a few days until tutors have worked out exactly what position their courses are in . |
| 16 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 17 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 18 | He sat in the dining-room , able to enjoy a few biscuits and fruit rather than the ‘ gargantuan midday meal which was hitherto compulsory ’ . |
| 19 | It may also have the effect of precluding those members who can not find the time to attend a few workshops and may therefore strengthen management committees and their bureaux in the long run . |
| 20 | If one team is losing it might be useful to give a few tips as to how to speed up . |
| 21 | The couple 's interest in gardening began with the desire to grow fuchsias to fill a few pots and baskets . |
| 22 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It 's okay I mean it it , okay in the parts , but when you come to do a like essays and things about it 's very helpful because of the |
| 24 | ‘ It would be nice to grab a few goals and with that in mind I 'm using all three of our main strikers . ’ |
| 25 | The extremely well-britched U2 are about to incur a few expenses as it would appear that they have half-inched some of the NME 's STUART BAILIE 's bon-mots . |
| 26 | Until the eighteenth century settlement within the neighbouring parish of West Bromwich took the form of small groups of cottages clustered together in ‘ ends ’ around the heaths , where squatters had opportunities to graze a few animals and to build a little workshop . |
| 27 | Your family would n't hold you back , and you have a professional qualification that 's highly in demand wherever you go , if you wanted to stay a few years and work . |
| 28 | So , as I enjoy the opportunity to create a modest tremor in the bourgeois breast myself , I have decided to present a few recipes that might be described as ‘ frighteners ’ : recipes that are totally delicious but fringed with menace . |
| 29 | They ambled along the riverbank , stopping to eat a few crickets and an earthworm or two . |
| 30 | We only want the managers to change a few things and to be more careful about safety . ’ |