Example sentences of "[be] [art] few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He is the New People and I am the Few . |
| 2 | Erm , so scale , proportion , those are the few , few things brought in together , we 'll st , we 'll start off with just weight , now we 'll find sort of weights of things , and then we 'll make it more and more difficult |
| 3 | You know , because they 're the few main things round here , you 're happy , and you can feel that obviously you , you 'll be working for something . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , ’ it said with relish , ‘ you think you 'll forget about your precious Lucy just because you 're a few hundred miles away ? |
| 5 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
| 6 | So what I want you to do is to follow these little chips er dimples here , they 're on this stone there 're a few on that but not on here , so that bit it goes in that direction . |
| 7 | I think there 're , there 're a few things erm , I think you asked the question er , Peter , about having eighteen people on one base all got to work together . |
| 8 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 9 | Okay so they 're a few options to try as regards the coding |
| 10 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 12 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
| 13 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 14 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 15 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 16 | There have been a few hostile bids , most notably that by Paribas for a conglomerate , Navigation Mixte . |
| 17 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 18 | There had only been a few sharp yelps of pain . |
| 19 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , there have been a few more hurdles since then . |
| 21 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 22 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 23 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 24 | We have not yet succeeded in creating reliable reproduction of touch , taste or smell , although there have been a few experiments . |
| 25 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 26 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 27 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 28 | But , he stood , not a little giddy , the fear to fall , and this must be ( sweat popped his head like bubbles ) , a long way , the worse hangover — and there had been a few — of all his thirty-seven years . |
| 29 | No one has ever refused to go up , but there have been a few that needed coaxing down ! ’ |
| 30 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |