Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] a few " in BNC.
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1 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
2 | Unlike our other two children , our daughter Alicia has given us a few problems with her nightly stirrings . |
3 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |
4 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
5 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
6 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
7 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
8 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
9 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
10 | Must have cost him a few thousand to have it done . ’ |
11 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
12 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
13 | We 've given you a few hints how to say them , dance to them , put great big eight foot wide papier mâché masks on to do them if you want . |
14 | If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names . |
15 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
16 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
17 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
18 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
19 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
20 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
21 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
22 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
23 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
24 | All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure . |
25 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
26 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
27 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
28 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
29 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
30 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |