Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pron] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He came up to me a few moments ago and said ‘ Do you remember me ? ’
3 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 .
4 And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better .
5 ‘ 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 .
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