Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [det] [noun] " 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 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 3 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 4 | Our parents live some distance away , she only gets to see them every few weeks , but I 'm close to hand , I 'm here to listen . |
| 5 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 6 | They always bring them the same day so there 's not much point in looking anywhere else . |
| 7 | Three , six , nine twelve , can you lend me a few fingers ? |
| 8 | Simultaneously mythic and painstakingly real ( ‘ the giant Exxon sign/That brings this fair city light ’ ) , his cityscape was inhabited by characters whose lives were condensed into their names , a few gestures or scraps of dialogue ( ‘ Hey , Eddie , can you lend me a few bucks … |
| 9 | I would be glad if Miss Marsden could spare me a few moments . ’ |
| 10 | I would be most grateful if you could spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sure you can spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 12 | Could you possibly spare me a few moments in private ? |
| 13 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 14 | Firstly , may I thank Mr Bence and the editors for allowing me a few lines in which to formally meet you all . |
| 15 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 16 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 17 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 18 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 19 | Conchis led me a little way to a deep fissure between two boulders , and there suspended a piece of white cloth on the end of a line . |
| 20 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 21 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 22 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 23 | He asked them a few times . |
| 24 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 25 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 26 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 27 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
| 28 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 29 | Most fax software lets you define a group of names in the fax phone book , and send them the same fax at the click of a button . |
| 30 | and he will say in a minute do n't buy me no more mince dear . |