Example sentences of "i [verb] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having endorsed this as a learning technique , let me make a few recommendations and observations of my own and list my personal ‘ top ten ’ . |
| 2 | Before I regret the temporary arrival of my better nature , you 'd better let me make a few calls and see what I can do to get you home today . ’ |
| 3 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 4 | He 's certainly made me laugh a few times ! |
| 5 | Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ? |
| 6 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 7 | I made a few inquiries . |
| 8 | ‘ I made a few enquiries an' it 's up fer rent , ’ he called back . |
| 9 | When they fished me out I made a few phone calls , |
| 10 | I made a few suggestions , creating chances , scoring goals , but it did not get through . |
| 11 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 12 | I made a few as samples and then she could see that they were n't right so we did n't use them in the end . |
| 13 | ‘ Rain , after I rang you this morning I made a few more enquiries and then went and told Barbara she was to come with me . ’ |
| 14 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 15 | It 's going to cost you under thirty eight pounds , so I 've got a little bit of wei , leeway if I made a few mistakes . |
| 16 | ‘ When I got your letter , I made a few enquiries and discovered that you are intending to practise from Broom House . |
| 17 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 18 | Yes , I made a few mistakes at first , like cutting up their slices of salami to the thickness of a sliced loaf . |
| 19 | er because I said I , I only phone Marion once a month and phone mum probably about once a fortnight , I do n't like to leave it any longer and erm and I said I know I made a few extra calls over Christmas , but I said I really do n't know . |
| 20 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 21 | Peering into the tank using a strong eye-glass I could only see a few fry and I mean a few . |
| 22 | Yeah I mean a few months ago I had absolutely no idea at all what |
| 23 | I mean a few people are talking , how many of you agree with that ? |
| 24 | erm I mean a few of things that I would say , first of all we operate on a freephone system , also we turn claims cheques round the same day , and the name of the game as far as we 're concerned is service . |
| 25 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 26 | I develop a few prospects , and a severe case of dysentery . |
| 27 | And then I met a few . |
| 28 | I met a few of them at my own destination , Cushendall , where the Co Antrim fleadh was in full swing , amid glorious sunshine . |
| 29 | Which although I 've heard before does say something about them … also , I met a few of them on the train up from London … |
| 30 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |