Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |
| 2 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 3 | I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions . |
| 4 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 5 | I watched it for several minutes , and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and the rest were going up and down . |
| 6 | She watched him for several moments , then looked about the large dining-room , trying to fathom the reason for his actions . |
| 7 | The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy . |
| 8 | To be on the safe side , they sent it to several countries . |
| 9 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 10 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 11 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 12 | She was tall for a woman , but he topped her by several inches , forcing her to look up at him . |