Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike our other two children , our daughter Alicia has given us a few problems with her nightly stirrings . |
| 2 | Their record of service has won them a British Waterways competition . |
| 3 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |
| 4 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 5 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 6 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 7 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 8 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 9 | We 've given you a few hints how to say them , dance to them , put great big eight foot wide papier mâché masks on to do them if you want . |
| 10 | If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names . |
| 11 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 12 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 13 | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy ‘ the most beautiful dress in New York ’ , telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband . |
| 14 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 16 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 17 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 18 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
| 19 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 20 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 22 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 23 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 24 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 25 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 26 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 27 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 28 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 29 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 30 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |