Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] few [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 |
2 | ( 24 ) He put a hand under her elbow and helped her stumble the few steps she had to take . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I turned it over , glanced at the Hungarian stamp , and read the few words I had scribbled to Stephanie , only three weeks earlier . |
5 | If they read a few textbooks they would find out that more major medical advances have depended on animal studies . |
6 | I 'll er I 'll try to get a few things , make a few bob you know , |
7 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
8 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
9 | Hence if you have a few shapers you might have noticed the tendencies in the group group discussion that we had because there 'll be people digging in and saying no this is the right way to do it . |
10 | We have a few mementoes I am sure you will agree are richly deserved . |
11 | Come ashore with me — I have a few things I must do . |