Example sentences of "a few [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reserve a few watercress leaves for garnish . |
| 2 | Jack played a few wartime matches in the London Combination for Palace at their new home at The Nest and then signed professional forms for the club when he left the Forces . |
| 3 | T prevented him from playing rugby , but even a few knock-out blows from bowlers like Allan Donald have failed to temper his international cricketing ambitions . |
| 4 | Modern British architects worth their salt , or future knighthoods , can be counted on a few colour spreads of the Prince of Wales 's bestselling book A Vision of Britain . |
| 5 | The Portland stone bears a few battle scars from the Blitz as well as the inscription from the Book of Exodus : |
| 6 | Its main elements are our own Fran Breen 's drums , James Hooker 's touch and song-sensitive piano and a few keyboard washes from co-producer , Rod Argent with her own and Byrd Burton 's guitars discreetly nudging the dynamics . |
| 7 | Below are a few haiku written by students in a writing class . |
| 8 | They 'll be looking for a few home runs at their new home at Dowty Aerospace . |
| 9 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 10 | JOHN OLVER , captain of Courage league leaders Northampton , will be making a few telephone calls to former Harlequin colleagues in the next couple of days . |
| 11 | A few telephone calls to other units showed that our hospital was not an exception . |
| 12 | And I might , I think I 'll put in there , I 'll make him up a basket of goodies with erm a few telephone stamps on a card and ooh I do n't know what . |
| 13 | ON AIR : John Leslie gives a few TV tips to Colin at the Blue Peter Studio . |
| 14 | Finally , a few guideline wishes for the 1990s : undoubtedly , first , that the Channel Tunnel will be completed without undue delay and that a new highspeed route will rapidly follow through Kent ; that under their new chairman , Robert Reid the second , from Shell , due to take his post in October 1990 , BR will somehow regain a touch of personality , warmth , humanity , without losing their commercial edge ; that the policy of providing new and cheaperto-operate stock for secondary routes rather than handing down yesterday 's worn-out express trains pays real dividends and prevents too much discussion of ‘ bustitution ’ ; and that defensive theory will give way to common-sense pragmatism over matters such as the quality of the printed timetable and what really benefits the customer . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 16 | I remember some years ago sharing a few dinner dates with a young lady who turned out to be one of Prince Charles 's old friends . |
| 17 | Hold the pleats in place by oversewing a few hand stitches at the base of each pleat ( fig. 34 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few practice swings with the trusty old battle axe later ( I swung Whiplash around by the ears ! ) and their verdict was soon forthcoming : MicroProse 's Project Stealth Fighter is about the best the C64 has to offer on the flight sim front . |
| 20 | Alerted by her dulcet tones , a crowd began to gather outside a downtown boutique and May generously offered a few fashion tips to the throng . |