Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a few time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 2 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 3 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 4 | You have only to give in a few times ( out of many when you stick to your planned ignoring ) to lose the battle . |
| 5 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 6 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 7 | You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ? |
| 8 | Mike come up a few times . |