Example sentences of "with [art] few [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it .
2 Incremental programming will be involved , starting with a few rules and , as more expertise is added , the ES gets bigger and performs better .
3 With a few whacks and some loud whistles , they drive the donkeys out of the enclosure .
4 Still , he prepared her cigarettes for her at least , filling a saucer with a few butts and plenty of ash .
5 So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down .
6 And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along .
7 A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics .
8 Now it is only a small island with a few houses and the great cathedral with its accompanying church , S. Fosca .
9 Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins .
10 Though separated from his Guard , Napoleon apparently remained in company with Soult , Bertrand and Drouot who , together with a few officers and an escort , were seen at Quatre Bras at 1 a.m. on 19 June .
11 It is possible to start off with the simplest possible system with a few reports and then add to it as new requirements are uncovered .
12 As soon as the removal van is spotted by a neighbourhood group member , the new family is welcomed into the area with a few pastries and an offer of practical help .
13 I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces .
14 Instead , I suggested Jeanne and John tire Moby with a few chase and throw-fetch games in the garden before taking him out for a walk on an extendable lead .
15 Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film .
16 The marshal 's favoured plan — Susan gathered — was that she should B into Daine 's Dream , as herself but with a few improvements and then rip the sub-universe apart until she found the fugitive and could tase him awake .
17 She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ?
18 The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail .
19 So why could Dr Neil , with a few words and a sidelong look , lance her indignation so easily , compel her to reassess herself and life ?
20 Before studying the procedures described further on , it will be helpful to be familiar with a few facts and suggestions for making personal " rules of thumb " and simplified tables as aids to mental calculations .
21 At all sites at which there have been landings , manned or otherwise , the lunar surface is almost entirely blanketed in fine dust , with a few stones and boulders here and there .
22 ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year .
23 Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened .
24 I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family .
25 with a few banners and some leaflets
26 The experience confirmed Tanzania as a society in which key decisions were made by the president , sometimes in consultation with a few individuals and sometimes not , for implementation by an elite of party workers and civil servants .
27 At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in .
28 The black culture will have a significant , if not dominant , place in your family perspective because every other influence will be portraying and reinforcing the white culture — hence a token attempt with a few books and the occasional embarrassed conversation will not combat it .
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