Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 2 | Benjamin and I followed a few minutes later . |
| 3 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 4 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
| 5 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 6 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 7 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 8 | ‘ As I said , you and I have a few things to settle before you leave . ’ |
| 9 | I was involved with the show that was recorded at The Marquee and I think a few months after that he called me and said he was doing an album called ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ and did n't know where to get it mixed . |
| 10 | You can see those rows of abbots on either side and behind them is a long tradition of succession of abbots including great saints and I suppose a few sinners as well . |
| 11 | ‘ But I have a few things to do first . |
| 12 | Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . |
| 13 | ‘ But I think a few rats did survive . |