Example sentences of "to [pers pn] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bereavement and the sorrow it brings is the price most of us have to pay sooner or later for the joy of loving , and it is a bill that the elderly have usually had presented to them several times in their lives in one form or another . |
| 2 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 3 | The people I like best of all are those who write to me several times as this gives me ‘ feed-back ’ on whether my solution to their original problem was correct , or the information I provided useful . |
| 4 | I made Stuart repeat the name to me several times : Squires Wine Bar . |
| 5 | But it is n't because I 've just said to you several times that one point two billion for a single franchise is absolutely ridiculous . |
| 6 | It was nothing to him , of course — orders were orders — yet it had occurred to him several times that it would have been far simpler to evacuate the Shepherds than go through with all this nonsense . |
| 7 | in areas supplied by river systems , such as the Thames Valley , water can be taken from the river , used and returned to it several times with the result that much of its initial quality has been lost . |
| 8 | has happened to us several times . |