Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give " em a few months , and you should see the share price double . |
| 2 | She a few times . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times , Gabriel ! |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you , thank you a thousand times , ’ she said huskily . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times . ’ |
| 8 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 9 | ‘ What would you do , ’ Wexford said to his wife , ‘ if I brought a young girl home and offered you a thousand pounds to let her stay ? ’ |
| 10 | It might cost you a thousand pounds if you live in a a huge detached house and in the back of building you 've got lots of rooms . |
| 11 | Even the smallest deviation can , as the Chinese say , ‘ lose you a thousand miles ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet . |
| 13 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 14 | if you 've got one line making you money and you 've got a hundred lines , a hundred lines is gon na make you a hundred times more , do , do you see what I mean ? |
| 15 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 16 | I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen . |
| 17 | You know , I bet you a hundred dollars you wo n't sleep with me . |
| 18 | Well you 've made this study and you 've written a book , Policies for Educational Accountability I think it 's called , which is just recently come out , and I 'm sure that will be a , a very worthwhile contribution , but let me just ask you a personal questions . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've told you a dozen times . |
| 20 | I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . " |
| 21 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe it caused you a few problems , but you might be about to get your reward in heaven . |
| 23 | Mm yes it would save you a few pennies would n't it , yes ? |
| 24 | Ask you a few things . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she began , taking up her basket . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor . |
| 27 | That would tell you a few things . |
| 28 | He says to her aye , he says , I could tell you a few things about Fiona that 'll make your hair curl . |
| 29 | I 'll tell you what anyway Jim I 'm coming back next week to er give you a few answers coming out of this fact find so |
| 30 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |