Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names .
3 I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it .
4 A vowel No I 've heard it a few times
5 ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted .
6 You 've done it a hundred times before . ’
7 You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do .
8 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 .
9 I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me !
10 Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . "
11 You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions .
12 ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right .
13 ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it .
14 ‘ I 've told you a dozen times .
15 I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . "
16 ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she began , taking up her basket .
17 ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor .
18 ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known .
19 ‘ Because Father is a tired old man I have spared him a hundred times , and tolerated things which are little short of intolerable .
20 I have imagined it a thousand times and it was not like this .
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