Example sentences of "a few [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
| 2 | Like everyone else even remotely connected with the Hochhauser Season ( and over the years she had listened to quite a few of Uncle Willi 's stories ) she had accepted the image of Gesner the seducer , the monster of conceit , the arrogant and selfish star of the company . |
| 3 | I have recently heard , and read , several reports about the paint ‘ peeling away ’ and have even heard rumours that a few of David Hockney 's originals are peeling away from their canvases , causing chaos with their owners , who are apparently demanding refunds ! |
| 4 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 5 | Try a few on Main Street or see you later . |
| 6 | Today it is probably extinct , although there might still be a few around St Brieuc . |
| 7 | A few like Hughie Gallacher , the marvellous centre-forward for Newcastle and Scotland in the 1920s , could never adjust to the sudden loss of fame and took their own life . |
| 8 | At MGM , he saw all the famous movie stars that populated that most famous of studios , and to his friends he name-dropped a few like Grace Kelly , with whom he fell in love from afar before she ran off to marry her prince . |
| 9 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |