Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am practising hard to try to find the answer and I am playing in several events in the next few weeks and hope it comes right . ’ |
| 2 | When I arrive outside the refuge where I am to stay for several weeks ; it is a house with no name . |
| 3 | I 'm not , it 's only over a two week period , they 're jammed in , I 'm getting in several days , all I have is three exams |
| 4 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |
| 5 | This means that you are seen by several people , individually , in succession , rather than facing them all as a group . |
| 6 | ‘ She was hit by several bullets . |
| 7 | Although the women 's identity remained shielded during the trial , she was named by several news organizations in the pre-trial period , and she chose to reveal her identity in an interview shortly after the verdict . |
| 8 | She was taken to several clinics and hospitals . |
| 9 | No evidence was offered against her and she was discharged after several remands . |
| 10 | She was arrested on several occasions and imprisoned three times . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the bank told The New York Times : ‘ We are looking at several options . |
| 12 | We are looking at several opportunities and will benefit from our involvement with the quarrying side of Wimpey Minerals which has always been involved in marketing its products on a free-market basis , ’ says John Chance . |
| 13 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 14 | When we got there , we were introduced to several divers who swapped telephone numbers with us and it was suggested that we have a dive with an instructor to re-orient us to diving in this country . |
| 15 | Often such a panel gives early warning of changes in public opinion where they are consulted over several years . |
| 16 | The Firm uses a few muscle-brains in the Middle East and so on , but they 're employed at several removes and a lot 's done to make sure they stay overseas . |
| 17 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 18 | In this context , Greenpeace said it believed that some of the sprays were dangerous , and pointed out that they were banned in several countries . |
| 19 | It 's appeared in several films about the mafia and carried a whole host of corsed actors . |
| 20 | It 's worked on several occasions since , though never again in ‘ God 's ’ voice . |
| 21 | Thus it is said in several cases that the plaintiff must have ‘ a right of property in the thing and a right of possession ’ and that unless both these rights concur the action will not lie . |
| 22 | This research forms an important part of the preparation and planning of any large commercial organization : it is conducted at several stages of the planning of a new product or service , and has reached a very high level of sophistication and accuracy . |
| 23 | Winix has already captured support from several computer firms and systems integrators including Tandem , Motorola , MicroAge and Science Applications International Corp ( SAIC ) , and says it is negotiating with several OEMs . |
| 24 | MCI Communications Corp describes a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is talking with several cable television companies about partnerships , with them possibly buying a stake in MCI as no more than rumour . |
| 25 | Husameddin , however , writes that it was in Amasya , not Aksaray , that Molla Fenari studied with Cemaleddin Aksarayi , saying that it is known from several documents that Cemaleddin Aksarayi was , between 751 and 782 [ sic ] ( 1350–1 to 1380–1 ) , muderris in Amasya and kazasker under the emir of Amasya , Hajji Shadgeldi . |
| 26 | One of them , written by the InstaPlan Corporation of California , has the additional merit that it is sold in several packages starting from the basic planning system . |
| 27 | As part of a locality purchasing project in the east end of the city he is working with several practices to see how general practitioners can provide this sort of information . |
| 28 | Sometimes he is reminded of several things . |
| 29 | It was subdivided into several provinces ruled by local khans , who tried to emulate the art , culture and pageantry of the Persian court . |
| 30 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said such a call would have little impact on Parliament . |