Example sentences of "a few [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Hillhead for a few founder by day . |
2 | Put it in a bowl of water a few bowl of hot water , a few drops , like you do if you got a cold , and just breathe in . |
3 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ I thought we would have got a few back after our last few results , but this seems to be par for the course lately . ’ |
4 | So what I , what I 'll do , I 'm gon na transfer your your erm your there and then that 's gon na save just a few couple of bobs alright ? |
5 | She 'd lost a few stone since the last time he 'd seen her and put on about half a ton of make-up . |
6 | Lochryan shore sport poor with only a few dogfish from Old House Point and Lefnol . |
7 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
8 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
9 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
10 | A few damage to the north east at Robeston Wathen the village church has an RAF Memorial Chapel . |
11 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
12 | Status . — A few summer in most years ; regular winter visitor and passage migrant . |
13 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
14 | Just a few pound in spares |
15 | Cambois North Hole for cod to 6 lb and a few coalfish on frozen crab . |
16 | Because he wrote quite a few letter in Welsh and he would dictate them to er Margaret . |
17 | A few taper to the top , such as the example from the cemetery at Berinsfield ( Oxfordshire ) ; some tapering vessels are bound with bronze , for example that from Droxford ( Hampshire ) , others may be of mixed construction such as those from Harwell ( Oxfordshire ) . |
18 | I saw a few sort of puzzled looks when |
19 | Because there 's a few sort of non-local calls I could make to get |
20 | because I can imagine , looking at rehearsals , what we need are a few sort of easy things to start and end rehearsals with , or for rehearsals when we 're a bit thin on the ground , er |
21 | Now erm there are quite a few sort of single parents on the , the flats , now erm are there any problems that you 've had which possibly other people have had , with living in the flats ? |
22 | It does n't seem to be er just a few sort of you know any more . |
23 | They 've had to go for the we did them a few sort of quotes on the survey side of this Arrow Park and er we 've got ta , you know , really stick to this tight budget because it 's the only way you can get them no matter what people are telling you erm about the recession being over , people still want things for nothing . |
24 | There 's a few sort of erm bits about it that he 's obviously changed or |
25 | A few rose to very high levels indeed and sent back invaluable information . |