Example sentences of "few lines of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never having read a word of Norse ( Old Icelandic ) before , Lewis plunged in and attempted a few lines of Laxdaela Saga . |
| 2 | Instead , it gives a few lines of new advice on better cooking methods . |
| 3 | Most certainly , the Conservatives relied upon a theme song which combined Al Jolson 's hit song ‘ Sonny Boy ’ with the dependability of Baldwin , the first few lines of which ran as follows : |
| 4 | Amelia had left off quoting from the wit and wisdom of her favourite mass murderers , done a few lines of cocaine , and started to whizz around the room . |
| 5 | The light was bad but Peter deciphered the first few lines of the left-hand page . |
| 6 | it shows how the centrefold effect can be used to embrace wide landscapes ; how a minimum of colour can gain maximum effect , and how a few lines of scribble can hold a lot of memory . |
| 7 | Brought down to prose by Falstaff for a few lines of word-play , Hal leaves him with another line of verse , marking the difference of ethos between them . |
| 8 | Again using improvisation as its ethos , the album once more finds Talk Talk sailing blissfully off into the unknown , each musician using their own initiative , steering the music through freeform jazz and contemporary classical music , Hollis occasionally adding a few lines of comfort and despair in his fragile and tender voice . |
| 9 | In the late sixties there was a joke among London agencies that all J. Walter Thompson press ads had a headline ( sometimes , greatly daring , reversed out of the illustration ) , a squared-up half-tone illustration , a few lines of copy , and a pack shot in the bottom right-hand corner . |
| 10 | The first few lines of the instruction section are quoted below for illustration : |
| 11 | When the studio manager asked him to say something to check the microphone levels , he recited the first few lines of The Wreck of the Deutschland with appropriate gestures . |
| 12 | On the back were the first few lines of a sketch for another painting , then scrawled across the lower half of the untreated canvas were some illegible words with numbers beside them , added up at the bottom , by the stretcher . |
| 13 | ‘ When I have often heard ’ is in the 1692 word-book ; the Plaint is on a single-sheet insert bound into the 1693 word-book , with a few lines of dialogue to cover the joins . |
| 14 | Most of them were accorded pseudonyms ( ‘ I will call her Sylvia ’ ) and given a few lines of narrative , where their function was little more than to illustrate our hero 's appetite and prowess . |
| 15 | Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation . |
| 16 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 17 | Take special care with long quoted passages ( more than a couple of sentences or more than a few lines of a poem ) , as a lengthy quotation which is not then followed by detailed analysis and discussion is probably being used ( illegitimately ) as a way of replacing rather than supporting your argument ; you should guide your readers through the significance of what you have selected for their attention . |
| 18 | THIS production is the British premiere of a 17th Century work by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega , but any assumptions we may have that it will be a genteel period piece are dispelled with the first few lines of dialogue . |