Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WARRENDER fitness instructor , gives Citizen readers a few tips on how to trim up for the summer . |
| 2 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 3 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 4 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 5 | He was treasurer of the RAS from 1831 to 1840 and became president a few years before his death in 1866 . |
| 6 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 7 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 8 | I practice a few poses for Marcus . |
| 9 | Lewis had backed the car a few feet down the ramp and was about to turn towards the Cherwell Arms when he heard his master 's voice — a single hissed and incredulous blasphemy : |
| 10 | For stomach curls you lie on your back on the floor , bend your knees upwards slightly ( while keeping your feet on the floor ) , then lift your head and shoulders a few inches off the floor ( do not use your hands or arms to support your weight ) . |
| 11 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 12 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 13 | A survey of usage also brings to light a few cases of a rare use — the to infinitive denoting an action after make . |
| 14 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 15 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 16 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 17 | She followed Edgar a few paces across the room . |
| 18 | The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up . |
| 19 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 20 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 21 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
| 22 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 23 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 24 | Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 . |
| 25 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 26 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 27 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 28 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 29 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
| 30 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |