Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |
| 2 | Budgetary concerns and the drive for self-sufficiency ( UX No 374 ) , are forcing OSF to retract back to a few core technologies like DCE , DME and Motif , and to hold off on any further technology requests . |
| 3 | Arbuckle directed a few comedy shorts as William Goodrich , was booed when he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces , and began to drink heavily . |
| 4 | It is worth discussing your child 's needs in detail and having a few rehearsal sessions before committing yourself to a job . |
| 5 | We feel that anthropologists are uniquely positioned to introduce a few question marks into the fundamental assumption of the discourse , and it is our hope that this book will provide some such . |
| 6 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 7 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 8 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 9 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 10 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 11 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 12 | Some cattle are reared on permanent pasture on the lower slopes and a few fodder crops of grass , oats and potatoes are grown in the lower valleys . |
| 13 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 14 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 15 | But at the moment only a few treatment plants in Britain have the equipment to do this . |
| 16 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 17 | Not unless I get a few phone calls from been here today . |
| 18 | They integrated with the Picts , the ‘ painted men ’ , finally absorbing them and their culture completely , leaving behind only robbed brochs , broken hill-forts and a few stone carvings as evidence of the Picts ' passing . |
| 19 | There are a few laughter lines around the eyes but the boyish grin is the same and at 57 , he looks 10 years younger . |
| 20 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 21 | There would be a new winter dress and a new summer one each year , plus a few cotton dresses for hot weather . |
| 22 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 23 | Other valley fields have a few dairy cows on grass . |
| 24 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 25 | She 'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending , heartless , authoritarian attitude . |
| 26 | During filming he became firm friends with Steve McQueen , who played a psychopathic , womanizing American bomber captain who tries to seduce his co-pilot 's English girlfriend , only to be told a few home truths about his attitude to people and war . |
| 27 | Simon Rundell , who works in one of the London hospitals threatened with closure , has a few home truths for the health secretary |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited my hon. Friend 's constituency and delivered a few home truths to the city council about its housing policy failures . |
| 29 | There was also a touch of home — one of the Highlanders produced a few newspaper cuttings from the British Press . |
| 30 | She eschewed all requests to be interviewed about the contest on radio or television , opting instead for a few newspaper interviews with sympathetic journalists . |