Example sentences of "find a few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Deal and Dover boats found a few codling at Fan Bay and other inshore marks . |
2 | Though I read no sympathy in his face or mouth , I found a few words to offer . |
3 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
4 | One day we were poking around in some sodden ashes by the rear exit and found a few slivers of celluloid with images on them . |
5 | Yes yes we found a few flowers an |
6 | Please could I ask you to find a few minutes to write to the Secretary of State for Wales , Welsh Office , Cathays Park , Cardiff CF1 3NQ , urging him to persuade his cabinet colleagues of the importance of finding time for an Environment Bill which includes these measures . |
7 | When Jim Belushi came , he wanted a particular American brand of beer and we had to search far and wide to find a few cans . |
8 | ‘ I 'm beginning to find a few clues . ’ |
9 | I raced against Cameron Sharp a number of times and beat him , so it was galling to find a few weeks later that he was racing Carl Lewis on the Continent . |
10 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
11 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
12 | At last , in Europe , where ‘ nobody expects you to be more than you are ’ , she finds a few answers . |
13 | Muriel Brunton , 70 , was found a few hours after ‘ a ferocious attack ’ lying dead in the hall of her home in Haigh Road , Aspull , Wigan . |
14 | ‘ See , we 've found a few seeps of underground water that 's close enough to the surface for things to grow . |
15 | He did it on the guitar and you were simply found a few words and |
16 | There must be some better talent in the lower divisions , I do nt hold much hope of getting Cook because Wolves seem to have found a few quid recently and would certainly put a silly price on him . |
17 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
18 | Its severed head is found a few days later , wrapped in plastic , and used as a football by some local kids . |
19 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
20 | Her underwear and tights , which had been ripped off , were found a few yards away . |
21 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
22 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer . |
23 | Then there 's the lending it out problem , where presumably people say ‘ can I borrow this stuff ’ and they just sort of walk off with it and you do n't know whether you 've got it all back , and you find a few weeks later there 's a lead missing . |
24 | You 'll find a few changes there . ’ |
25 | Maybe you can find a few sources for us . |
26 | ( A wry comment from two young people who sometimes had to delay posting letters until they could find a few pennies for stamps . ) |
27 | You 'll find a few fish stalls too . |
28 | It may find a few crabs or other invertebrates on the shore to nibble , but otherwise it eats nothing . |
29 | The second pitch was n't much better , but I did find a few bolts . |