Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 2 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |
| 3 | He tossed the packet towards her a few moments later . |
| 4 | During the evening she caught sight of him a few times , always dancing , holding his partners very close , and managing to avoid her eyes . |
| 5 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
| 6 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
| 7 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 8 | The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 'll just bear with me a few minutes , gentlemen , I 'll just nip along to the car , if I may . |
| 10 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |
| 11 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 12 | Having 2 ex-county players on the team has also been very worthwhile with helpful tips being tried out every week ( as the Institute chaps will tell you , comparing our game with them a few weeks ago and the Charity Match just played — sorry David what was the score … ? ) |
| 13 | Take with you a few park-type finds , plus some examples of the dangerous junk we dispose of safely . |
| 14 | I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me ! |
| 15 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 16 | And so she behind all the way but caught up with her a few metres |
| 17 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 18 | I 'd gone out with him a few times — pictures in Penzance , that sort of thing , and father being away … |
| 19 | Oh she knew the bloke , she 'd be she 'd been out with him a few times before right , he 's , he 's not a bad bloke but like I said like I said erm but he 's respect for her I said to her |
| 20 | and me go off , I would n't do that without really you know , having been out with him a few times . |
| 21 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
| 22 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 23 | He 'll be with us a few days . |
| 24 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 25 | ‘ I got a letter from him a few days later , sent to the travel agents . |
| 26 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 27 | Thornaby skipper Mike Priestley will be hoping he can repeat that feat for him a few times this season . |
| 28 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 29 | I 've got some bits in there for her a few kittens in there for a couple of days I , so they 'd go up , pick them up and they get left |
| 30 | PAGE 3 girls apparently are feeling the chill and quite unable to earn the sort of mega money available to them a few years ago . |