Example sentences of "few [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary . |
| 2 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 3 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 4 | I do n't know , the last few times I 've tried to come off , I have n't really wanted to come off , thinking about it now . |
| 5 | I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether . |
| 6 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 7 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 8 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 9 | I remember once , yeah it was like that , yeah that 's right , not one , but a few times I used to get on the train from Runcorn to Liverpool , I had an address to go to in Liverpool , rough directions how to get there , to pick up a suit or to pick up a fitting , you know you 'd get the , the different |
| 10 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 11 | And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching |
| 12 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 13 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 14 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 15 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 16 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 17 | If Kegan had waited another few minutes I could have got it settled . |
| 18 | After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again . |
| 19 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 20 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 21 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 22 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 23 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 24 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 25 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 26 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 27 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 28 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 29 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 30 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |