Example sentences of "[pron] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 2 | One of my several worries about going to Bristol was thy feeling of being a bit of a fraud . |
| 3 | Caroline claimed she 'd bathed him , massaged him and that he 'd had her several times dressed in school uniform . |
| 4 | I 've seen her several times and before you rang me at the theatre , she had promised to find out where you were and tell me . ’ |
| 5 | Pretty Polly 's jockey in the Gold Cup was Bernard Dillon : he had ridden her several times before . |
| 6 | I was able to visit her several times and then , in my capacity as literary editor of New Hungarian Quarterly , I was often sent to make contact with poets in America and so on . |
| 7 | The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been . |
| 8 | Boffin pays for him to be trained as a cabinet-maker , and he is last seen visiting Jenny Wren and promising to make her several things as examples as his new-found skill . |
| 9 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 10 | Susan had met her several times , and had always said she 'd like to know her better . |
| 11 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 12 | Later , she said , Courtney asked her several personal questions . |
| 13 | He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies . |
| 14 | He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies . |
| 15 | In some birds , like the American jacana , the female defends a large ‘ super-territory ’ within which each of her several males defends his territory . |
| 16 | I had a row with her several times , but this once I said , why did n't she get out there and shift some bloody irrigation mats with me , and she just slapped her belly and said she 'd got too fat to bend . |
| 17 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 18 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 19 | He phoned her several times a day to check she was there , even though both Susie and her manager had asked him not to . |
| 20 | The irony of her situation struck her several times over during the following few days . |
| 21 | Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid . |
| 22 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 23 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 24 | By three o'clock she had asked her several times if there was anything she wanted , brought her biscuits and tea and watched the clock for an hour . |
| 25 | It took her several seconds to absorb the letter although it did not in any way fill the one sheet of paper . |
| 26 | Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’ |
| 27 | I played with her several times when she was in her 70s — and she trounced me . |
| 28 | The Oxford police must have interviewed her several times already . |
| 29 | Virginia had crept up to her several times trying to be friendly , but each time the house repelled her advances , do n't you dare to come near me with those nasty creepy little fingers she smiled , preventing the new young tendrils finding a hold on her walls . |
| 30 | The vet was very kind but had to explain that Lizzie had severe heart failure , repeating himself several times before Marjorie and Bill could comprehend the situation ; he was asking them to make a decision — a decision to end Lizzie 's life . |