Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise that knitters with other makes of machine can not achieve this stitch , which , I suppose , is why one sees few patterns for it . |
| 2 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 3 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 4 | The furious dad packed his daughter and their few possessions into his 12-year-old Toyota Corona … and moved into the car park at council headquarters in Cromer , Norfolk . |
| 5 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 6 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 7 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
| 8 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 9 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 10 | a few houses on them . |
| 11 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 12 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 13 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
| 14 | I have pleasure in enclosing a few copies of our new recruitment leaflet which I hope you feel will enable you to attract a lot of people in your area to become CPRW members . |
| 15 | We can contemplate many pictures of large-wheeled carts , for example , and a few scraps of them remain ; but the details of land transport are still obscure , though we become ever more aware how much must have travelled on exceedingly inadequate roads . |
| 16 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 17 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
| 18 | ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know |
| 19 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 20 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 21 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 22 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 23 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 24 | I met Leonard Elmhirst a few times in his old age . |
| 25 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
| 26 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
| 27 | ‘ There must be few meetings between you while you 're in London . |
| 28 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |
| 29 | In addition to the remark about ‘ having a few aces up his sleeve ’ , something else the big sheriff had said was puzzling Grant . |
| 30 | I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it . |