Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rare blue lizards scurry among the rocks of Petra ; clumps of black lilies grow beside the King 's Highway ; the few oases teem with birds . |
| 2 | As usual , it needs an add-in , but at least you get a few icons to play with |
| 3 | Rain spent a few minutes sympathizing with the psychic 's frustrations and then suggested that she try Maureen again , but with a specific request for a set of keys . |
| 4 | As we draw near to the table in the course of the nest few minutes to meet with our Lord , in the bread and in the wine , let's just remember today that the power , that the energy , that the spiritual renewal comes to us because God is with us and God is with us now , because of the activity of God the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | There can also be few musicals infused with quite so many infectious tunes or sardonic lyrics which embody perfectly the angst and awakening libido of the seven teenagers at the club on a typical Saturday night . |
| 6 | The thing about Kennedy is that every time I hear he has done something outrageous I think ‘ Oh God ! ’ , but then I spend a few hours working with him and leave thinking what a good heart he has and how serious he is as a musician . |
| 7 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 8 | Not so long ago , a haulage company would send its drivers out into the world with few opportunities to communicate with then until they returned . |
| 9 | Few books dealing with education for special needs have referred to governors . |
| 10 | In the curiously claustrophobic , hierarchic world of the organisation , with the competitive pressures for promotion and jockeying for status , and the paranoid reactions this could induce , a few words spoken with a confident air of authority in certain ears at certain times could do incalculable harm , in my view . |
| 11 | Here are a few remedies to help with some of the more commonly encountered problems during breast feeding . |
| 12 | It was not possible for the NFER project team to study in any detail the role of investigative work in a graduated test scheme , partly because few schools associated with the project had gone very far towards introducing it into their curricula . |
| 13 | In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity . |
| 14 | She looked at the brown baked countryside , the dust and the withered grass near a few huts built with mud bricks , and corrugated iron roofs . |
| 15 | And there 's few gamekeepers to bother with . |
| 16 | Throughout Northern Ireland , however , very few buyers bothered with the three words . |
| 17 | The thing actually works as a SCSI device , but because so few PCs come with a SCSI port most people use the built-in SCSI-to-parallel converter . |
| 18 | Seb spent the next few days wrestling with very tangled emotions . |
| 19 | The City is one of the few places left with the old London buses you can jump on and off . |
| 20 | Relatively few studies begin with an explicit ( ex-ante ) theory which is then rigorously tested against the data . |
| 21 | Up to the late 1950s , few infants born with spina bifida aperta were treated actively and there was a wish , usually realised , that they would die . |
| 22 | Bottom-placed Dundee HSFP set a few hearts pounding with that fine win over Kelso , and another against Gala at Mayfield would really upset the relegation apple-cart . |
| 23 | A few pounds spent with a fashion and colour consultant is a good investment . |
| 24 | Among those animals where a few males mate with most of the females and where , as a result , competition between males for females is intense , weapons such as antlers , horns and teeth are particularly well developed . |
| 25 | Although the Irish elk is no longer with us , just from the size of its horns we can be fairly certain that it was polygamous , and that a few males mated with most of the females . |
| 26 | Actually , I think that life has few pleasures to compare with dam-building . |
| 27 | Finally , in a few patients treated with Asacol ( n=2 ) , Claversal 500 mg tablets ( n=2 ) , Salazopyrine ( n=2 ) , and Claversal 250 mg tablets ( n=1 ) additional biopsy specimens were taken from the ileum , sigmoid , and rectum . |
| 28 | As you know , few files dealing with intelligence matters are immediately available . |
| 29 | The instrumental guitar album boom of recent years has seen few players survive with their credibility intact . |
| 30 | She had not had it with her on Sunday during the walk to the belvedere and although it might now be too late in the day to catch the best of the light , it would be useful to have a few shots to help with descriptions of the scenery when she came to write her novel . |