Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 3 | Three , six , nine twelve , can you lend me a few fingers ? |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | I would be glad if Miss Marsden could spare me a few moments . ’ |
| 6 | I would be most grateful if you could spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm sure you can spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 8 | Could you possibly spare me a few moments in private ? |
| 9 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 10 | Firstly , may I thank Mr Bence and the editors for allowing me a few lines in which to formally meet you all . |
| 11 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 12 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 15 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 16 | He asked them a few times . |
| 17 | I 've spoken to right er and owes me a few favours and I 've said er would you consider her completing her training until the end of May middle of May which she does at the and then if she 's any good , take her on , providing she gets a driving licence . |
| 18 | Their record of service has won them a British Waterways competition . |
| 19 | They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains . |
| 20 | ‘ Alan Dysart phoned me a few days ago . ’ |
| 21 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 22 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 29 | I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz . |
| 30 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |