Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 V. GENT enlightens us on a few of the problems he 's had to deal with over the counter .
2 The Legenda tell us about a few miracles that he is supposed to have performed , but otherwise he seems to have lived a fairly uneventful outward life .
3 Admittedly , ethnography presents us with a few ( but very few ) examples of value systems in which inequality of status is viewed as a moral evil ; but these cases are so exceptional that they probably always represent transient states of society .
4 The general enthusiasm for the fortieth anniversary of the structure of DNA should not blind us to a few blemishes on the otherwise fair face of molecular biology .
5 ’ So they kept us in a few days .
6 Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later .
7 Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ .
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