Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 2 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 3 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 4 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 5 | ‘ It 'ud do to buy us a few drinks with , Sam , ’ a woman called from the far end of the smoke-blackened room . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 7 | . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 11 | Now if you say it in an ex , in a , in a do you want to give me a few examples ? |
| 12 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 13 | ‘ But I want to give you a little help with your wicket keeping . |
| 14 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 15 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 16 | I would like to say that we should be concentrating on traffic management schemes which included traffic calming and take this I 'd like to give you a few examples . |
| 17 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 18 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 19 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 20 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 21 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 22 | But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’ |
| 23 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 24 | He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’ |
| 25 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 26 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
| 27 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 29 | And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing . |
| 30 | Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London ! |