Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I already have several houses , my dear Shiona . |
| 2 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 3 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 4 | ‘ But I probably saw several men like that in all this trainload . |
| 5 | On top of the carpet of groundbait I then scatter several handfuls of maggots or casters and/or worms , or whatever hookbait I have decided to use . |
| 6 | The poor performance of the main opposition Social Conservative Party ( PSC ) , which similarly fielded several slates of congressional candidates and gained only 10 seats in the Senate and 15 in the lower house , confirmed recent indications that the 70-year duopoly of power by the PL and the PSC had been broken . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that such terranes are equivalent to oceanic plateaus , which are to be found in the present-day ocean basins and which often rise several kilometres above the adjacent ocean floor ( Fig. 3.32 ) . |
| 8 | The need to develop this potential is recognised by the Group Personnel Information Services Department which currently performs several roles . |
| 9 | Then she pointedly spent several minutes talking to him . |
| 10 | Twins are more likely to be born to older mothers who already have several children ; they are likely to be born prematurely and/or have difficult births . |
| 11 | Venables ' commercial agent Eric Hall , who also represents several Spurs players , said after the hearing : ‘ I think he 's lost the battle maybe today , but the war 's still on and he 'll win the war . |
| 12 | She also lost several pieces of jewellery which were of sentimental value . |
| 13 | You now have several options , so take a bit of time to think through what you really want to do — and get the best advice you can . |
| 14 | In this respect they are much the same as primitive people , who often take several days over assembling for some purpose and then several more to get started . |
| 15 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 16 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 17 | We know that we still have several hours of concentrated work ahead and another meal to look forward to at the end of the working day . |
| 18 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 19 | I hated Vienna , because we now had several rooms and so I was further from the forest . |
| 20 | We now have several nurseries in operation although resources are very poor . |
| 21 | Note to artists : Because of the overwhelming response we now have several weeks ' supply of pictures for the Gallery page . |
| 22 | We transiently expressed several cDNAs in mammalian cells , then assayed both cell lysates and conditioned medium in a Schwann cell proliferation assay . |
| 23 | We completely ignored several facts . |
| 24 | They also boycotted several hearings because of alleged widespread legal irregularities . |
| 25 | They then practise several times lying down , counting to fifty , getting up , going to the toilet , and trying to urinate . |
| 26 | Even patients who eventually recover may take years to do so , and they sometimes require several admissions . |
| 27 | They too have several causes . |
| 28 | Through the book Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine by John Speed [ q.v. ] ( 1612 ) it eventually provided several generations of British and foreign map-users with their cartographic image of central and southern Ireland . |
| 29 | Whilst the Bill of Rights thus resolved the basic position for the future , it nevertheless left several questions unanswered and we must now turn to these : |
| 30 | While the yield to maturity is the single most commonly used measure of yield , it nevertheless has several disadvantages . |