Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 2 | ‘ I only met you a half hour ago and I love you like one of my own . ’ |
| 3 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 4 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 5 | You had better give me a few days . |
| 6 | We , in return , had better give you a few tips on how to behave in a Grenadier battalion or you 'll come badly unstuck . ’ |
| 7 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 8 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 9 | Would Sue ( she hardly knew her , after all , had only met her a few minutes ago ) really let her share the little bubble of love that sealed her and Pete up together and away from the rest of the world ? |
| 10 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
| 11 | If I mention them and then perhaps give you a few examples of the sort of facilities which erm which we have available . |
| 12 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 13 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 14 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 15 | You 're just from the YTS. — You 've only known her a few weeks . |
| 16 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 17 | It only took us a few seconds to realize the mistake but by then twenty-eight kids and three of the missionaries were either dead or dying . |
| 18 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 19 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 20 | ‘ The authorities have only allowed me a little time with you . |
| 21 | erm , she made me bend my head and I could only bend it a little way and she could see the spasms |
| 22 | She only had one a few weeks a go as well . |
| 23 | He had only kissed her a few times before , yet his taste was as familiar as the beat of his heart beneath her hand as she clutched his shirt . |
| 24 | ‘ You only have them a few years , after all , ’ his mother cried . |
| 25 | This birth was so quick and easy , Wilson could not think it the same process as Oreste 's . |
| 26 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 27 | ‘ Threat ’ when used in this connection means ‘ an intimation by one to another that unless the latter does or does not do something the former will do something which the latter will not like . ’ |
| 28 | just told me a few minutes ago ! |
| 29 | ‘ Just give me a little time to take it in . ’ |
| 30 | Just give me a few minutes , will you ? ’ |