Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Did you remember to cut a few inches off the exhaust-pipe ? ’ |
| 32 | He had waited until the sentry reached the tower at the end of his beat , knowing , after watching the man from the bailey , that the guard would pause to exchange a few words with another man-at-arms before they separated to retrace their steps . |
| 33 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 34 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 35 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 36 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 37 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |
| 38 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
| 39 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 40 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 41 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
| 46 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 47 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 48 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 49 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 50 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
| 53 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 54 | Erm what I need to do now is just so I 'm gon na have to cross a few things out . |
| 55 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 56 | When Serafin presses him , Summerchild will try to suggest a few names . |
| 57 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 58 | The footings and parts of the walls of around 300 chambers have survived on the ground floor ; the presence of several staircases implies the existence of upper storeys and , taking into account the destroyed upper floors as well , the original temple may have had a thousand chambers altogether . |
| 59 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 60 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |