Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , may I thank Mr Bence and the editors for allowing me a few lines in which to formally meet you all . |
| 2 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 3 | And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that . |
| 4 | Laverne did me a great service of showing me a few of the local species . ’ |
| 5 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 6 | If you feel like showing me a few pages in a day or two , I would be pleased , and I 'm sure your other readers out there would be fascinated by a full autobiography . |
| 7 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 8 | He toyed with telling her a few home truths , but then decided it would do no good . |
| 9 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 10 | If you have electrical appliances I know it 's gon na cost you a few pence , or probably even a few pounds these days , do make sure that your electrical appliances are serviced properly and correctly . |
| 11 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |
| 12 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 13 | While he was n't able to resist indulging his rather immature sense of humour by selling me a few dummies , my father could n't abide a son of his not being a credit to him in some way ; my body was a forlorn hope for any improvement , so only my mind was left . |