Example sentences of "[prep] several [noun] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] writes of several occasions when he met friends and had news of Herringman 's authors there . |
| 2 | The discourse analyst , then , is faced with several problems when he wishes to use the very attractive pretheoretical notion of ‘ topic ’ as ‘ what is being talked/written about ’ . |
| 3 | Er and in several places where he did go because he , he , his supporters were thugs really . |
| 4 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 5 | The image vanished , but for several minutes now she sat in shock . |
| 6 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 7 | They had known it was not right to separate a man from his wife for several months when she had a young baby and a business , in a manner of speaking , to care for . |
| 8 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 9 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 10 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |
| 11 | Describing the plight of Somali children , it explains : ’ Many of them have not been in school for several years when they arrive in this country ’ . |
| 12 | Alford Grammar school also had a hand in the education of Captain John Smith before he went to Louth and Thomas Paine , famous for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania and for his written works , in particular ‘ The Rights of Man ’ , lived here for several years when he worked at the Excise Office . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |