Example sentences of "[adv prt] a few [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew there would be some details that might fill in a few gaps and , indeed , I had not known that Mme G had kept in touch with Otto and that , prior to my arrival on the scene , he frequently drove over to Reine with tempting delicacies that Jean-Claude invariably refused to eat . |
| 2 | I also spoke of my difficulty in giving talks to the armed forces ; for nothing remotely intellectual was acceptable , and the only use which I felt I could be was in taking along a few maps and indicating the whereabouts of places increasingly mentioned on the wireless or the press ( though they read only the ‘ picture ’ papers ) . |
| 3 | After a while , Corbett nodded , handed over a few coins and left , his face wreathed in a complacent smile . |
| 4 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 5 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 6 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 7 | The dog moved off a few paces and turned back , wagging his tail anxiously . |
| 8 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 9 | However , the job had to be done , and our training asserting itself , we began to pic up a few bits and pieces . |
| 10 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 11 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 12 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 13 | Just put up a few pictures and so on . |
| 14 | Soon she would herself be in the market for a new home , and , though she and Boyd could not hope to outdo a contractor like the Mayor building for himself , she could pick up a few ideas and have them incorporated into their new house in Vanier Heights . |
| 15 | They need to sort out a few things and they 'll be very competitive . ’ |
| 16 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 17 | It was a day to remember ; we were all quite taken by Fair Isle and I took the opportunity to dig out a few facts and figures about this remote island . |
| 18 | I jumped in , let out a few expletives and was out again just as quickly . |
| 19 | find out a few details and I 'll meet you back at the estate agents |
| 20 | Pick out a few terms and decide how they are best defined . |
| 21 | She tipped the sunshade back a few inches and let the dazzling rays toast her face . |
| 22 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 23 | He moved back a few paces and , without pausing to think , took a running leap out into the chasm between the two houses . |
| 24 | He staggered back a few steps and , massaging his face , mumbled in complete astonishment to nobody in particular : ‘ He hit me ! ’ |
| 25 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 26 | All you had to do here was to move back a few steps and you 've made it much more interesting in the foreground . |
| 27 | Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ? |
| 28 | I waited around a few minutes and had a chance to talk with Tony Dorigo and met his mother who works in the Digital office in Birmingham . |