Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm , it 's a city , this takes me back a few months , since the Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry , the character , special character of a city , is derives from a number of elements , there 's the green wedges which centre on the strays which penetrate into the heart of the built up area , there is the encircling belt of open countryside which links those areas together , there are the numerous settlements within the greenbelt and their relationship to one another , and to the city of York . |
2 | ‘ But to my surprise , he phoned me back a few days later , and offered to help me . |
3 | This has set me back a few weeks , that 's all . |
4 | Now we fasten pinecones to the dahlia sticks and shake them out every few days . |
5 | ‘ Someone tried to run him over a few hours ago . |
6 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
7 | Oh I phoned her back a few days later and said how are things now ? |
8 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
9 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
10 | I think they closed it down a few years later . |
11 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
12 | Rainbow spins it round a few times , and whistles . |
13 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |