Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 2 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 3 | I was occupied several evenings a week . |
| 4 | ‘ The demonstrations were mostly started by first- and second-year students ’ , I was told several times , ‘ but the government are punishing the graduates . |
| 5 | British space officials do not expect any major difficulties in finding the money for INTEGRAL , because ESA science programmes are paid out of the subscriptions of member states which are calculated several years in advance . |
| 6 | Apart from those on the far side of the road which were built several years later on on another complex |
| 7 | Breakfast was served in a long , low-ceilinged room , with a deep fireplace , on which were roasting several animals which Snodgrass said , in an awed whisper to Fenella , were oxen . |
| 8 | Geoff Cooper , director of the Spicers Consulting Group , which is advising several societies on how to construct defences to hostile takeover offers , says a bid within the next 18 months is extremely likely . |
| 9 | A large English opencast operator , Banks , which is working several sites in Scotland , plans to extract 76,000 tonnes of coal and 10,000 tonnes of fireclay . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , before our next programme — which was recorded several years ago by the Central Office of Information — we go over to Bill Giles in the London Weather Centre for the twenty-four hour forecast . ’ |
| 11 | Due to be finished at the end of this month , the project will add an extra 326 acute beds to the 240 long-stay and acute beds in the hospital 's first phase which was completed several years ago . |
| 12 | The real fire-fight developed over the stricken Mowhawk which was hit several times and her captain R. F. Jolly , R. N. was fatally injured and a number of his crew killed . |
| 13 | Belfast is the only area who run a first year league which was formed several seasons ago and this year 15 teams have entered with the finals before Easter . |
| 14 | This was followed by White Shops , next to the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital , where there were also bus stops and two schools but no crossing patrol , which was withdrawn several years ago . |
| 15 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 16 | Moreover a sea-battle which followed , off Kekryphaleia , a small island between Aigina and Epidaurus , and some fighting on Aigina itself and in the Megarid , were conducted by ‘ the Peloponnesians ’ , who are mentioned several times . |
| 17 | If you are fitting several lights ( downlighters or eyeball spots , say ) , run this cable to the nearest fitting , and then run cable from this to the next nearest , and so on to the last . |
| 18 | Use the best quality paper , and if you are getting several photocopies made make sure they are done on good quality paper and not ordinary photocopy paper . |
| 19 | This may seem rather inelegant or wasteful but , if you are sampling several wines , swallowing them all will result in your senses of taste and smell , and thus your powers of differentiation , becoming jaded . |
| 20 | But if you 're taking several medicines , you might forget which medicine is for what . |
| 21 | And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger . |
| 22 | She 's phoned several times over the past couple of days . ’ |
| 23 | The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home . |
| 24 | ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’ |
| 25 | She was driven several miles to a secluded country spot and assaulted for an hour . |
| 26 | Robert Fellowes commissioned Soane , who was building several houses in East Anglia at that time , to design his family seat in willowy country just south of Norwich near Shotesham All Saints , a village with a winding stream and Dutch gabled cottages . |
| 27 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 28 | We were offered several locations at the Biennale and decided on a small space in the best location thirty-six square metres ( as opposed to fifty or ninety ) opposite Galerie Cailleux . |
| 29 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 30 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |