Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 2 | I got quite a few kicks out of doing that . |
| 3 | I got quite a few things in there . |
| 4 | I answered every thing and I seem , I think I got quite a few right , I mean I do , I , if I got fifty percent on that I 'd be very pleased . |
| 5 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 6 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 7 | Peach leaves being unavailable in my strip of London back garden , I used instead a few drops of real almond essence , towards the end of the cooking , when the juice and sugar are on the boil . |
| 8 | ‘ At first I was the only guest wearing it , but I noticed quite a few others following suit . ’ |
| 9 | At first I heard only a few calls ; within ten minutes , at least twice as many animals were calling , and , by circling about the pool , I observed that a steady stream of spadefoots was coming from all directions to the breeding area . |
| 10 | I saw quite a few artists whom I wanted to represent on the trip . |
| 11 | I bought quite a few medicines actually . |
| 12 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 13 | You got , you got quite a few |
| 14 | She knew , with a feeling of detachment , that she attracted quite a few stares herself , primarily from men , and that if she had not had André at her side she would have been in very real danger of having to concoct a few efficient exit lines . |
| 15 | It was good advice , as she discovered just a few miles out of town when , as he 'd predicted , she found herself in a very different environment . |
| 16 | When she grew calmer , he slowly released her and she walked away a few paces , staggering , digging her hands in her pockets and turning her back on him . |
| 17 | ‘ But you returned only a few weeks ago , during Holy Week ? ’ |
| 18 | Quickly she put together a few sandwiches and , suitably dressed for walking , waited impatiently as they chugged slowly towards their planned point of departure . |
| 19 | But you did quite a few of the movies , too , did n't you ? |
| 20 | She had quite a few gadgets . |
| 21 | I have a niece who erm she had quite a few , she 's won several times . |
| 22 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 23 | It was my good fortune to see a lot of Emily Carr and to be counted as a friend , for she claimed she had only a few . |
| 24 | You had quite a few . |
| 25 | And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way . |
| 26 | For example , somebody would go into a restaurant in Lime Street — we got quite a few of those . |
| 27 | ‘ We got quite a few people giving us their old notes which was quite naughty — especially as the bank refused to change them . ’ |
| 28 | We drew quite a few games away . |
| 29 | We studied only a few newborn infants up to 2 months old , which made it difficult to assess fully the usefulness of the WHO criteria for detecting hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 30 | Also there were things called pangas which were knives erm and the we saw quite a few tribal incidents and people were injured from knife attacks . |