Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes think that artists could well exhibit a few sketches along with the actual picture . |
| 2 | We hope that as your Medau News — with its views , information and diary of events — comes through your letter box this September , you will agree that by receiving it by direct mail is a better system than sharing a few copies round from class member to class member . |
| 3 | A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ . |
| 4 | Only er National Savings are worth keeping your eye on , because the government 's very keen to make a few shillings out of National Savings , and you might get some good issues in the future . |
| 5 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 6 | A few minutes out of town there 's a famous Victorian restaurant where unusual dishes of days gone by are served in intimate , candlelit rooms , a medieval moated manor house now a hotel , and lovely country house hotels with excellent restaurants . |
| 7 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
| 8 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 9 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 10 | With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work . |
| 11 | ‘ I think we must get that husband of yours to lop a few branches off outside the window before you go blind , ’ he says to Rose , to demonstrate the terms he is on with her . |
| 12 | Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden . |
| 13 | And on the stone staircase , a few steps up from Bert 's cubbyhole , Flossie barking asthmatically from inside , lay Bunty Baird , head down , her pretty limbs ugly in disorder within the flimsy disarray of her kimono , one white sandal still on her foot . |
| 14 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 15 | Andrew was always with her , walking a few steps out of her reach . |
| 16 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 17 | In fact it allowed very few off-worlders on to the planet , and they were mostly technicians with special skills — who were required to live restricted lives in special compounds , hardly ever mixing with the local population . |
| 18 | Were there quite a few vessels around at that time that were giving assistance ? |
| 19 | and I 've also got one album erm with a few pictures in from when I was in Kenya which was in nineteen eighty four so , you know , if anyone wants to see what I looked like in there I had longer hair and I was wearing a white coat so they 're very welcome . |
| 20 | Patrick stirred , rolled his head and spewed a few words out through his sliced lips and mangled mouth . |
| 21 | A few months on in their friendship Nigel began to be sick of the hints of affection dropped by Eleanor . |
| 22 | Almost immediately , it seemed , Burton got his first film break — still only a few months out of the RAF . |
| 23 | ‘ Twill do Anne no harm to leave off the dances for a few months out of respect for her grandma , ’ Julia said . |
| 24 | They say that aside from getting a few noses out of joint at Microsoft Corp , enough people felt BillyGram was a silly name and would prevent it from being taken seriously . |
| 25 | Well A few cars about in the car park ! |
| 26 | If you go back to the ‘ fifties and ‘ sixties , there were a few killers around like this one . |
| 27 | Sometimes the youngsters flew a few feet up into the air to take the offering — to return immediately to the safety of the wire . |
| 28 | He took a run at the tree trunk , and scrambled a few feet up before pitching on his head . |
| 29 | Rowboats , a few feet out to sea , |
| 30 | The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer . |