Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 2 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 3 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 4 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 5 | A friend of mine came to you a few months back . |
| 6 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
| 7 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 8 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |
| 9 | The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch . |
| 10 | This happened to us a few years back . |
| 11 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 12 | Cedric , on the other band , though obviously delighted to meet her , gave no hint of doing his part , After sniffing her over , he danced around her a few times , goofy-faced , tongue lolling . |
| 13 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
| 14 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 15 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 18 | Or rather , he could make them , but just did n't feel like abiding by them a few hours later . |
| 19 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 20 | I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me ! |
| 21 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 22 | Yeah I ask mum and dad to stay with us a few more , two thirds of a carrier bag full . |
| 23 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 24 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 'll just bear with me a few minutes , gentlemen , I 'll just nip along to the car , if I may . |
| 26 | Take with you a few park-type finds , plus some examples of the dangerous junk we dispose of safely . |
| 27 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 28 | The warrant officer was speechless , but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before . |
| 29 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |