Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she could get to Bart 's before the day staff had begun their routine , she might be allowed a few moments with Amy . |
| 2 | The Exchange discourages the use of equity shares with no or restricted voting rights , so this can not normally be used as a device to retain control amongst a few shareholders with voting rights . |
| 3 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 4 | LABOUR 'S Nigel Griffiths checked out claims of computer game rip-offs yesterday by going a few rounds with Sega 's Sonic The Hedgehog . |
| 5 | This book does contain a few games with winners but I must say that , on the whole , I do not like elimination games . |
| 6 | I 've never actually spoken out , other than last year when there were a few incidents with girls where I sort of said well you get what you deserve , you know , if you 're going to operate such a sort of sexist situation , then you 're going to get very difficult for girls because they 've no positive images whatsoever , and I was actually … |
| 7 | Basically , you find a warren , cover a few holes with netting , send your ferrets down and wait . |
| 8 | The collected volume of his Seventy eight studies from Nature ( 1809 ) contains an 8-page discourse entitled ‘ A Few Observations with respect to the mode in which Plantations ought to be Conducted . ’ |
| 9 | My reason is that George spent a few minutes with Lennie , comforting and making him a happy man by reminding him of his dreams , before sending him off to find his final dream in heaven . |
| 10 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 11 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 12 | By contrast these areas are rolling plains bearing many craters smaller than about 10 km diameter plus a few craters with diameters in the range 10 to 20 km . |
| 13 | Before raising Biggles we had a few failures with baby owls the shocking Barnys had abused . |
| 14 | Because of the visits to the footplate to see the controls , and also the food cooked traditional style on the shovel , most of the people at the party will have exchanged a few words with Roger and gained an impression of the sort of cheerful , obliging chap he was . |
| 15 | Sister said she had no work for me for a few minutes , so I could direct traffic for her whilst she had a few words with Dr Jones . |
| 16 | He would have liked to exchange a few words with Cedric Downes at Oxford — surely a man suffering from the same kind of trouble ? |
| 17 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 18 | In the evening after dinner I had a few words with Barrymore alone . |
| 19 | A few words with Ruby |
| 20 | Susan caught up with her after a few words with Mr Darling . |
| 21 | He exchanged a few words with Hodai , then rode away again . |
| 22 | Instead of merely shopping , exchange a few words with shop assistants . |
| 23 | Afterwards he had a few words with Hob 's wife , the children cowering around her . |
| 24 | ‘ On the Thursday you return to Streatley , to maintain the myth of your father 's continuing business interests ; and perhaps to check a few details with Dr Lefeuvre . |
| 25 | However , there were a few outliers with values of over 0.4% , and so marking to the market occasionally had an important effect on arbitrage profits . |
| 26 | ‘ I was just clearing up a few points with Dr Blake . ’ |
| 27 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 29 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 30 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |