Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 2 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 3 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 4 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll like this one , ’ they leer , before showering me with a few priceless gems from the treasury of homophobic humour . |
| 6 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ Twice you have surprised me within a few minutes , Mr. Preston . |
| 8 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 9 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 10 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 11 | Do n't you think you can manage to stop needling me for a few hours ? ’ |
| 12 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 13 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 14 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |
| 15 | ‘ He took me to a few parties but I was uneasy about him . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I did that , ’ she told him flatly , ‘ but if that was your intention which I doubt , do n't you think it might have been kinder to have left me with a few illusions ? ’ |
| 17 | She would have passed me by a few feet , perhaps not noticing me . |
| 18 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 19 | At Lima bus station an unemployed mining engineer , who would later sting me for a few thousand intis , told me , ‘ This country , something really wrong with it . |