Example sentences of "[pers pn] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll give you a few minutes again just to consider these questions . |
| 2 | Well that was the question that Mr asked you a few minutes ago was n't it , er Mr ? |
| 3 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 4 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 5 | ‘ I see from your notes that your doctor saw you a few days ago . ’ |
| 6 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 7 | It was a great pleasure meeting you a few months ago and I should like to feel our paths might cross again some time . |
| 8 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 9 | just told me a few minutes ago ! |
| 10 | The warrant officer was speechless , but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before . |
| 11 | He came up to me a few moments ago and said ‘ Do you remember me ? ’ |
| 12 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 13 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 14 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Alan Dysart phoned me a few days ago . ’ |
| 17 | Your mum did tell me a few weeks ago |
| 18 | So I was not surprised when he rang me a few weeks later to say that Dorothy was in hospital . |
| 19 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
| 20 | It took me right to the McDarroch days as he fished out one forceps after another , opened and shut them a few times then tried them on me . |
| 21 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 22 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 23 | Or rather , he could make them , but just did n't feel like abiding by them a few hours later . |
| 24 | I must admit , we joined them a few moments later for a well-earned cuppa after our day 's exertions . |
| 25 | They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains . |
| 26 | A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town . |
| 27 | These three are likely to feature in tomorrow 's opening match against a Stellenbosch Farmers XI , though any idea of a nice easy game should be dismissed as Yorkshire , who have been out here for a week , struggled to beat them a few days ago . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 30 | 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 … ? ) |