Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooking procedures : most of the meals do not need cooking , just add hot water and leave them to stand for a few minutes . |
| 2 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 4 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 5 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 6 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 7 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 8 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 9 | I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family . |
| 10 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel like a million dollars ’ , said Ruth . |
| 12 | I lost about a hundred relatives in Auschwitz . ’ |
| 13 | Richard made the gown I wore to meet Charles and Di at the premiere for The Living Daylights and I felt like a million dollars in it . ’ |
| 14 | I meditated for a few seconds , concentrating on my breathing , immediately aware of how shallow it was . |
| 15 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 16 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 17 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 18 | I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there . |
| 19 | ‘ I went to a few shops , including Iceland , and to the George pub on Bondgate . |
| 20 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 21 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 22 | And I learned after a few weeks that how he got this was There was no weather forecast as we know them now you know on the television . |
| 23 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 24 | We stop the jeep for a few words with the Marines , some I recognise from a few weeks ago when they were on their way to take up positions on the coast , on the left of 1st Commando Brigade . |
| 25 | I said about a million times . |
| 26 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 27 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 28 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 29 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
| 30 | So I stayed on a few weeks and erm then I went back to London |