Example sentences of "few [noun] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 2 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 3 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 4 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 5 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 6 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 7 | ‘ He did make things difficult for a few minutes and I did consider having him fired from the chamber . |
| 8 | I could get to the car-park in a few minutes if I wanted to and be near him , thinking of him — his problems over , lying on the brown eiderdown in his blue pyjamas . |
| 9 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 10 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 11 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 12 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 13 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 14 | A few months after I joined the Department of Transport in 1979 I was presented with an issue which had baffled governments for well over a hundred years . |
| 15 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 16 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 17 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 18 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 19 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 20 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 21 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 22 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 23 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 24 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 25 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 26 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 27 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 28 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 29 | He left after a few days as I said . |
| 30 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |