Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle .
2 I think if I was going to go Sunday I think I 'd buy myself a few cos that
3 Dutch radio was coming in good but the commentators were extremely biased and almost wet themselves a few times .
4 He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible .
5 And earn yourself a few dollars at the same time . ’
6 When at last she got into bed she allowed herself a few angry tears , then brushed them furiously away .
7 Give yourself a few lessons at the first opportunity .
8 Sadly , manufacturers of more modern machines save themselves a few pennies and if it is ‘ user ports ’ or analogue to digital converters that are required then the customer must dig even more deeply into his or her pocket !
9 There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world
10 He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick .
11 He 's gone to bowl in the deep mid wicket position and Gooch just giving himself a few yards er mid-on .
12 When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me .
13 It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole .
14 Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions .
15 If I can keep up the Peter Sellers act long enough without dying of laughing , I might just get meself a few pints out of it .
16 She would allow herself a few more hours with him , and then she would practise self-discipline .
17 You can make yourself a few bob there I should think .
18 ‘ I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’
19 One might think that , in those circumstances , Ministers would begin to ask themselves a few basic questions , such as , ’ Where have we gone wrong in Scotland ?
20 He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets .
21 Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) .
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