Example sentences of "with a few [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Daughters of the American Revolution , with a few Minutemen thrown in . |
| 2 | The tail was just a stump with a few feathers beginning to show through , rather like the beard stubble that appears when someone has n't shaved fur a couple of days . |
| 3 | Jean had straight brown hair with a few layers cut into the top ; stylist Patrick Cameron , Artistic Director for the Alan Paul group of salons , suggested a tousled look which would suit her heart-shaped face . |
| 4 | Harry Williams ' home-bred flyer has attracted tremendous ante-post support at odds of 100–1 and now the bookmakers have dramatically cut the price to 50–1 , with a few layers offering a more generous 66–1 . |
| 5 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 6 | Any budding Napoleon with a few hours to spare — or a few days , for some games — can choose from titles such as ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ , ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Line in the Sand ’ . |
| 7 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 8 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 9 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 10 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 11 | For a savory accompaniment , poach in stock with a few cloves to serve with ham , chicken or duck . |
| 12 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 13 | The villagers occasionally dress up in their lederhosen , and give it all they 've got with a few thigh slapping , foot stamping numbers . |
| 14 | The past year has been a rollercoaster one for the royals with a few highs followed by lots of depressing lows . |
| 15 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 16 | In the main , they are an extension of the vineyards of Cramant , with a few hectares encroaching into the communal borders of Chouilly and Avize on either side . |
| 17 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 18 | All the big names were there : Scudamore , Pipe , Nicholson , Dunwoody , along with a few fortysomethings helping raise money for the Spastics Society , the main beneficiaries of the day . |
| 19 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 20 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 21 | Needless to say the Herald proved itself admirably with a few lessons learned for next time . |
| 22 | If you do find yourself in this position , with a few seconds left to the gun , consider reaching across them so that you can get clear air . |
| 23 | ‘ What foolish rabbit-warrens our well-to-do houses are obliged to be , ’ William Morris complained in 1884 ; ‘ instead of being planned in the rational ancient way … a big hall , to wit , with a few chambers tacked on to it for sleeping or sulking in . ’ |
| 24 | Also hold the inward creases of the pleat to the back of the heading with a few hand stitches at the top of the pleat . |
| 25 | The game itself is an interesting mix of platform hopping and hand-to-hand combat , with a few subgames thrown in for good measure . |
| 26 | The worst problem is that the combination of silt , moss and leaves , along with a few chippings washed off of flat roof , can cause soakaways to get blocked , thereby reducing the flow at times when it 's needed most . |
| 27 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 28 | Standing on top of the Mexican pavilion , still an empty shell with a few plants sprinkled over the roof and a 1,500-year-old cactus guarding the entrance , he said : ‘ I am not only sure that Expo will be ready on the day . |
| 29 | One minute she was enjoying it — oh , with a few protests thrown in , like she did n't know me well enough , she should n't be doing it , and so on — nothing serious . |
| 30 | With a few exceptions dictated by compassion , Jane Austen 's visiting list extends no lower than ‘ the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel ’ , while Richardson 's , misfortune apart , is even more exclusive . |