Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 2 | ‘ I want more than your body , ’ he said quietly , ‘ though lord knows it 's given me a few sleepless nights ! |
| 3 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 4 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
| 5 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 6 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 7 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 8 | Would Sue ( she hardly knew her , after all , had only met her a few minutes ago ) really let her share the little bubble of love that sealed her and Pete up together and away from the rest of the world ? |
| 9 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 10 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 11 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 13 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 14 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 15 | All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure . |
| 16 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 19 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names . |
| 22 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |
| 23 | Michel 's told me a few things about himself ; he comes from a family of lawyers and administrators . |
| 24 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 25 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 26 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
| 27 | mm , have you had it a few years ? |
| 28 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |
| 29 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she began , taking up her basket . |