Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so she behind all the way but caught up with her a few metres |
| 2 | He came up to me a few moments ago and said ‘ Do you remember me ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 4 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 5 | The girl in the mirror was a total contrast to the haunted image which had stared back at her a few hours earlier . |
| 6 | Even so , PNP has clearly brought along with it a few entirely new initiatives . |
| 7 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
| 8 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 9 | I 'd gone out with him a few times — pictures in Penzance , that sort of thing , and father being away … |