Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 2 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 3 | I was occupied several evenings a week . |
| 4 | ‘ The demonstrations were mostly started by first- and second-year students ’ , I was told several times , ‘ but the government are punishing the graduates . |
| 5 | If you are fitting several lights ( downlighters or eyeball spots , say ) , run this cable to the nearest fitting , and then run cable from this to the next nearest , and so on to the last . |
| 6 | Use the best quality paper , and if you are getting several photocopies made make sure they are done on good quality paper and not ordinary photocopy paper . |
| 7 | This may seem rather inelegant or wasteful but , if you are sampling several wines , swallowing them all will result in your senses of taste and smell , and thus your powers of differentiation , becoming jaded . |
| 8 | But if you 're taking several medicines , you might forget which medicine is for what . |
| 9 | And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger . |
| 10 | She 's phoned several times over the past couple of days . ’ |
| 11 | The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home . |
| 12 | ‘ He keeps hisself to hisself , ’ she was told several times , though Davyd , who always had superior knowledge , added ‘ cut him in half and you 'd find pure gold , all through . ’ |
| 13 | She was driven several miles to a secluded country spot and assaulted for an hour . |
| 14 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 15 | We were offered several locations at the Biennale and decided on a small space in the best location thirty-six square metres ( as opposed to fifty or ninety ) opposite Galerie Cailleux . |
| 16 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 17 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 18 | They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor . |
| 19 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 20 | The ‘ New Style ’ Calendar was adopted in Britain in 1752 but not without some opposition from some who thought they were losing several days of their life . |
| 21 | It 's understood several offers have been made for the remainder of the lease but none has so far been accepted . |
| 22 | He confesses he found the book 's success unreal and it 's taken several years to find level ground again . |
| 23 | It 's not a question of how good it is to recycle several tons , it would be better still not to produce it . |
| 24 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 25 | He 's won several awards for his radio work and has been praised by top journalists for documentaries he 's come up with for Radio One . |
| 26 | It was situated several kilometres outside the city and sprawled across three hundred acres . |
| 27 | It was to take several years and unexpected pressures before general progress in this direction was achieved , but it is important to remember that there were views being canvassed in the CNAA and more widely that pointed towards a possible further ‘ collective resolution ’ . |
| 28 | An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes . |
| 29 | He was hit several times and died shortly afterwards . |
| 30 | The shooting took place in the Highfield Estate off the Shankill Road and local people said he was hit several times in the head by gunmen who sped from the scene in a car . |