Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Ratter had arranged for me to attend several training courses , including the two-day ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 2 | Lots of them tried several times before succeeding . |
| 3 | These structures gave them strength and enabled them to stand several centimetres tall . |
| 4 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 5 | The best way to understand how people , from all walks of life , can be helped is to hear from them personally , so I asked several people from my classes in Devon to write a short summary about how the Alexander Technique had helped them . |
| 6 | On my first visit to the village I was unable to find any of its vines and when I asked several people from the larger Champagne houses , few had even heard of its vineyards , let alone of their elevated status . |
| 7 | In order to gain some idea of the adequacy of the diet , I asked several people from poor families outside how much rice they ate and whether they would find the prison food acceptable . |
| 8 | I asked several people besides Demetriades , who had been at the school only a year , whether Leverrier , Mitford 's predecessor , or Mitford himself had ever spoken about meeting Conchis . |
| 9 | The programs were tried out extensively with my own students , and from their feedback I made several modifications . |
| 10 | I made several speeches in the Lords propounding my belief that the Biafran side should have had our support , and I still believe we would have been very much better off had that ensued . |
| 11 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
| 12 | I mean several times I 've bought things from them , there 's stately homes , they do the same thing , do n't they ? |
| 13 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 14 | I smelled several rats immediately . ’ |
| 15 | Later , when exploring the grounds , I met several wrens , as well as titmice , blackbirds and chaffinches . |
| 16 | My right hon. and learned Friend and I met several delegations and held discussions with a number of our right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 17 | I make several trots down the run without so much as a tremble of the float . |
| 18 | I make several lists , filtering out every stage those things I can , if pushed , do without — the aqualung , the white tie and tails , the Trivial Pursuits . |
| 19 | I got a fork stuck through my hand more than once : I got several tips off here and little stabs and one thing and another . |
| 20 | I tried several times but the same thing happened . |
| 21 | I tried several places before they tumbled through the ballroom doors . |
| 22 | On going back to the airstrip later I found several Pacific golden plover with the greys . |
| 23 | For some reason or other , ever since the last meeting with Leon Shelly in the hotel lobby , and my introduction to Hellen Semmens , my interest in Shelly Films seemed to increase and I found several occasions on which to ring Hellen about arrangements for the further use of CBC announcers . |
| 24 | I gleaned several things . |
| 25 | I rose several inches into the air and when I descended , heart thumping , head singing , I glared over the wall . |
| 26 | I approached several people for money to back the project . |
| 27 | A further advantage of using ( as I mentioned several times before ) is that we get rid of the vectorial nature of the problem . |
| 28 | ‘ When I first watched Michael Chang play tennis , ’ Jose recalls , ‘ I told several people that I believed Chang could do well at the French Open . |
| 29 | In fact I go out of my way ( I mean I walk several streets out of my way ) to make myself seen . |
| 30 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |