Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 2 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
| 3 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
| 4 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |
| 5 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 6 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 7 | Similar to Fitzgerald , I had retreated a few patients months to years after their initial management , but one third of patients still had symptoms of constipation 6.8 ( 2.8 ) years after initial evaluation . |
| 8 | I had heard a few comments , such as : ‘ Oh ! |
| 9 | ‘ I had discovered a few things about him that were very … hurtful . |
| 10 | On Boxing Day I had accepted a few spoons of gravy , but only after considerable coaxing from Mick , having refused it twice already . |
| 11 | I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me . |
| 12 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |
| 13 | I should mention that I had bought a few items of clothing that morning , before the trial began . |
| 14 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 15 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 16 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 17 | I had known a few evenings here when it was chilly and wet — the nights were generally cold — but now it was pleasant ; warm as a good summer evening in Scotland . |
| 18 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 19 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 20 | On the contrary , he informed her , ‘ I 've run a few checks on you , and I like what I 've heard . |
| 21 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
| 22 | but I 've lost a few pounds since last week . |
| 23 | I 'm afraid I 've lost a few friends and challenged a few others . |
| 24 | I know I 've fallen a few rungs on the ladder , but at least I 've been there and done it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When I 've played a few games for Lazio , when I 'm ready and the boss says I am fit to return , I will bring the whole family to Wembley to watch me again . |
| 26 | I 'm sure it 's in Pauline 's garden because I 've seen a few times . |
| 27 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 28 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 29 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
| 30 | But I 've noticed a few faces in the crowd and it wo n't be long . |