Example sentences of "to [pers pn] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He came up to me a few moments ago and said ‘ Do you remember me ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 8 | A friend of mine came to you a few months back . |
| 9 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 11 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 13 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 14 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 15 | That John should have kissed her like that — in the way she had quite often seen boys kiss girls on their way home- and that she should not have minded , apart from the slight awkwardness of the people surging around them , would have seemed incredible to her a few months ago . |
| 16 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 17 | This happened to us a few years back . |