Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’ |
| 2 | I moved it a little way away . |
| 3 | I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz . |
| 4 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 5 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I know what a few quid means . ’ |
| 7 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
| 8 | When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me . |
| 9 | I saw him a few times more , but never alone , I wrote him two letters when I was in Spain , and he sent a postcard back . |
| 10 | I saw him a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 12 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 13 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 14 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
| 15 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 16 | I gave her a few days off when William went away . |
| 17 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
| 18 | I gave him a few of the arsenical tablets I had used in my only cure . |
| 19 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 20 | And erm we er I gave him a few tips on what to revise on |
| 21 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
| 22 | shepherds pie yesterday and I did them a few chips with it as well . |
| 23 | After all , I had nothing a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 24 | Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) . |
| 25 | Let me give you a few examples : |
| 26 | Let me give you a few tips on how to make your pockets bulge … |
| 27 | Let me give you a few examples of the way in which our departments work . |
| 28 | The screen shivered and cleared as he cut off , which allowed me to offer him a few choice epithets that he could n't hear . |