Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 2 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 4 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |
| 5 | Always used to a high energy level , she had found that the need over the last few months to pace herself , rest , keep calm , was driving her slowly insane . |
| 6 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 7 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 8 | Very few farmers prepared themselves for handing over , tending to assume that ‘ next year would be time enough ’ . |
| 9 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |
| 10 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 11 | He waited for a few moments to compose himself , then left the court with his arm round his wife , Shirley , to face a large crowd of waiting reporters and cameras . |