Example sentences of "a few [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Daughters of the American Revolution , with a few Minutemen thrown in . |
| 2 | A few labourers drifted in , muttered good-day and threw back Poire William , as if it were purely medicinal . |
| 3 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 4 | And this really was the basis therefore of the first films , they were really demonstrations that pictures could move , and this was sufficient for people to pay a few pence to come in erm and look at the films . |
| 5 | Above his head , George saw the monitor black out , and then a few words faded in . |
| 6 | We could see the army post now and the shuffling sentries and a few jeeps passing in and out of the gate . |
| 7 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The game itself is an interesting mix of platform hopping and hand-to-hand combat , with a few subgames thrown in for good measure . |
| 10 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 11 | A generous Dalglish said : ‘ Watford played better than the score suggests , but obviously we are pleased to see a few goals go in . ’ |
| 12 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 13 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |