Example sentences of "[verb] a few [noun pl] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll just fetch a few things we might need . ’ |
| 8 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 9 | If they read a few textbooks they would find out that more major medical advances have depended on animal studies . |
| 10 | I have enclosed a few things I would like you to look at when you have a moment . |
| 11 | ‘ And when you do , ’ Shales said , ‘ tell him I 've got a few items he may recognize . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got a few days I can go into work disco poster , I 've got ta do this and that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I 've had a few drinks I get a little argumentative . |
| 16 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 19 | Assuming the Boss and Big Boss can score a few wounds you are in with a good chance of winning the combat . |
| 20 | By considering a few examples we can isolate some of the problems that remain : |
| 21 | John Gorman says he 's fine and once they start getting a few points you 'll see all the smiling faces back again . |
| 22 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 23 | er but no doubt we 'll have a few showers I 'm sure |
| 24 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |
| 25 | As he put his hand in his pocket to withdraw a few coins he knew that he was lost . |
| 26 | Maybe , she thought bitterly , if she had asked a few questions she might have uncovered the truth about him for herself , instead of having the information relayed to her by one of her friends . |
| 27 | We got a geezer come to the door you know yeah , and he took a few particulars you know . |
| 28 | If David was to have a few drinks it would all come out . |
| 29 | And there was nothing for my father had a few drinks you know and he 'd come home and he he 'd just come he 'd he 'd b be whistling coming up the street you know . |
| 30 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |