Example sentences of "put [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 2 | Because they they 've condensed it and just put in a few little bits and pieces ! |
| 3 | We put on a few and I knew I was finishing , so I thought I would try to go out with a bang by breaking the pavilion window in the Long Room . |
| 4 | As darkness made it impossible to continue , all that remained was to put in a few of the darkest reflections . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to put in a few of those brutal German proverbs that do n't mean anything . |
| 6 | He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 7 | You could afford to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 8 | However , the work has been put off a few weeks , so there 'll be plenty of room . |
| 9 | We obviously put in a few more details … |
| 10 | Busacher put in a few whirly violin runs on the piano and crescendoed unnecessarily loudly , paused too long , gasped , she joined him , and together they sailed into the finale and burst out laughing . |
| 11 | But , put in a few pages at the end of chapters , they are rather an ‘ add-on ’ . |
| 12 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 13 | We 've already put in a few letters to start you off . |
| 14 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |