Example sentences of "[verb] a few [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there were n't many that sort , that felt the way I did , I mean I hated him , I really did and when he turned round and he said ooh Keith wants a few words I said to Elaine , look shit 's gon na be it , |
| 2 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 3 | Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the |
| 4 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 5 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 6 | This time he carried in one hand , carefully cupped , a broad leaf filled with honey ; in the other hand he grasped a few nuts which he thrust out to Marian with an air of uncertainty as though he feared they might be rejected as the maggots were . |
| 7 | JOHN CRIPPS has a few suggestions which you might not have thought of . |
| 8 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 9 | It is impossible to detail every virtue or fault you should look for when making your choice , but here I list a few pointers which may help . |
| 10 | ‘ He scored a few goals which were very important in our title push and it was a gamble that paid off . |
| 11 | & sup1 ; I want to talk about reactions to the report and to highlight a few issues which have arisen since it was written . |
| 12 | THE GUEST WHO COMES TO STAY FOB A FEW DAYS You have to know , or find out , what foods your guest likes and loathes — otherwise the entire stay will be an embarrassing misery . |
| 13 | ‘ People should carry a few dollars which they can hand over . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll just fetch a few things we might need . ’ |
| 15 | On a brief evening stroll Maxim had also noticed a few tourists who had clearly solved the problem of eating whilst asleep ; it is an oddity of American that only tourists are truly fat never the locals . |
| 16 | So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’ |
| 17 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 18 | If they read a few textbooks they would find out that more major medical advances have depended on animal studies . |
| 19 | I have enclosed a few things I would like you to look at when you have a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ And when you do , ’ Shales said , ‘ tell him I 've got a few items he may recognize . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been on telly just about non-stop for 12 months , but I 've got a few ideas I have n't had time to work on . ’ |
| 22 | I 've got a few days I can go into work disco poster , I 've got ta do this and that . |
| 23 | Never mind you can play the Bare Naked Lady thingummybobs and er then hopefully we go oh he 's in the shop he 's had a few customers we 'll get back to John a bit later . |
| 24 | Now normally over each break there 's not that much there 's I 've had a few students who say they want lessons through the holiday cut normally not that much but this |
| 25 | When I 've had a few drinks I get a little argumentative . |
| 26 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 27 | After waiting a few minutes she collected the pictures from the slot outside the booth , put them in her bag without looking at them and hurried home . |
| 28 | ‘ Warrender display a few guidelines which I always follow , ’ said . |
| 29 | He consulted a few people whom he thought were good tests of opinion . |
| 30 | Then Amanda had lain on the bed and made a few suggestions which insulted his experience ; he 'd fumbled hurriedly with zips and cuff buttons , his Calvinistic conscience retreating into its corner , and then exultation was running through him like the roar of the crowd the night Jim Watt had won his title . |