Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 2 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 3 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It 'ud do to buy us a few drinks with , Sam , ’ a woman called from the far end of the smoke-blackened room . |
| 6 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 8 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 10 | Now if you say it in an ex , in a , in a do you want to give me a few examples ? |
| 11 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 12 | I would like to say that we should be concentrating on traffic management schemes which included traffic calming and take this I 'd like to give you a few examples . |
| 13 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 14 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 15 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 16 | But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’ |
| 17 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 18 | He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’ |
| 19 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 20 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 22 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 23 | If a black pupil comes to see her a few times she automatically labels them as troublemakers . |
| 24 | It had to be faced , they were a selfish pair , and she had no intention of upsetting Agnes 's comfort , or her own , to save them a few pennies . |
| 25 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 26 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 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 | ‘ We would like to ask you a few questions about Andrew Livesey . |
| 29 | ‘ I just wanted to ask you a few questions about your neighbour , Gladys Brown . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd like to ask you a few questions , Miss Cassidy ? ’ |