Example sentences of "few [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few prisoners that I know of , and a hundred people live there , including two or three who are official security guards . |
| 2 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 3 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 4 | You slipped over a few times but you got up alright did n't you ? |
| 5 | It was a perfect day of hot sun with a light following wind , one of the few times that we were able to sunbathe . |
| 6 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 7 | He did this a few times before he realised the result would always be the same . |
| 8 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 9 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 10 | But I think I should ring a few times before I would arrange to meet him . |
| 11 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 12 | You 'll read that sort of round and round a few times before you get it straight in your head what 's |
| 13 | She 's been round here a few times since her husband been away asking how I am . |
| 14 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 15 | Be prepared to ‘ fall off your bike ’ a few times whilst you are learning . |
| 16 | Just sit down ( I thought the idea was to dance — IM ) and listen to ‘ Yes Please ’ a few times until you realise that Shaun 's lyrics and the band 's music together still mean something to all their fans who follow a band purely for their music … so what were you doing talking to the stupid old Happy Mondays after all ? |
| 17 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 18 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 19 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 20 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 21 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 22 | I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate . |
| 23 | Storms Morrissey , at No 23 in the charts with former band The Smiths ' This Charming Man : ‘ I 've met Vic Reeves a few times and I ca n't believe he 'd do something so hurtful . |
| 24 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 25 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 26 | There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was . |
| 27 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 28 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 29 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 30 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |