Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few prisoners that I know of , and a hundred people live there , including two or three who are official security guards . |
| 2 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 3 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 4 | I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate . |
| 5 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 6 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 7 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 8 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 9 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 10 | Just give me a few minutes while I get dressed and I shall be ready to go with you . |
| 11 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I 'll be able to model your gown ; it 's right at the end of the show , so I 'll have a few minutes after I 've finished Roman 's clothes . ’ |
| 14 | It 's only for a few minutes till I buy these and then you can have a turn at walking . |
| 15 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 16 | ‘ He did make things difficult for a few minutes and I did consider having him fired from the chamber . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 19 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 20 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Erm so I 've bought a few bottles and I do n't |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |