Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 2 | However , she leaves more cheerfully after a few choice words from one of the boys suggesting that her photograph should be changed because it does n't do her justice . |
| 3 | After a few polite words , Sophie was about to do the same when Giles said , ‘ Do n't go . |
| 4 | During the week ashore you meet your companions and after a few discreet words the lead crew sorts you out . |
| 5 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 6 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 7 | This again implies some limitation on the quantitative measurement of style , for within the limited compass of a few hundred words , little statistical significance can be attached to the frequency of this or that feature . |
| 8 | Being a man of a few select words , Scott McNealy claims it ‘ works good and runs fast . ’ |
| 9 | Being a man of a few select words , Scott McNealy claims it ‘ works good and runs fast . ’ |
| 10 | Now it all went for nought because of a few careless words . |
| 11 | A man of a few carefully-placed words , not to lose contact with the external world . |
| 12 | How long before ample-bottomed builders find themselves behind bars for a few ill-chosen words or a misplaced calendar ? |
| 13 | Four boys had beaten him up , forced him into a laundry basket and left him helpless under a cold shower , and all for a few ill-judged words and a bar of soap . |
| 14 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
| 15 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 16 | With a few well-chosen words and a quick sketch or two , Bryan sorted them out for us . |
| 17 | ‘ He wrecked your act with a few well-chosen words that would have slid straight off your back if anyone else had said them . |
| 18 | Lori dominated the table and Travis urged her on with a few well-chosen words . |
| 19 | On several occasions the obituarists have been poised , ready to send the man to his grave with a few solemn words of recognition . |
| 20 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
| 21 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 22 | The flash alerted the criminal , and with a few choice words exchanged , the car chase resumed . |
| 23 | With a few choice words Adam Burns had somehow managed to take all the fun away — he 'd tarnished her act , cheapened it even , by describing her as brash and brassy . |
| 24 | It is usual for an interviewer to show the candidate to the door with a few final words . |
| 25 | Alternatively , you may be shown the door with a few sharp words more in keeping with a tyrannical consultant than your friendly neighbourhood GP . |
| 26 | So let me leave you with a few wise words . |
| 27 | SO TOUCHING : Making an elderly woman 's day with a few kind words |
| 28 | A quick photo ( well it was very pretty even if it was small ) and back into the water with a few quick words something to the effect of ’ go send me your grand-daddy ’ . |
| 29 | It is impossible to convey to an outsider in a few short words the hothouse emotional atmosphere of such an establishment , with its all-too-conscientiously suppressed sexuality , and the consequent hysteria , or just plain silliness . |
| 30 | It will discourage the all too common , careless " triggering " of a response ( usually chronological and narrative ) to a few familiar words . |