Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] for [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 2 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 3 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 4 | She 's expected to stay there for a few more days , as a precautionary measure . |
| 5 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 6 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 7 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 8 | You may like to think quietly for a few moments , then read these words from the first letter of John . |
| 9 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 10 | ‘ He may decide to hold off for a few days and give steroids to develop the lungs , ’ Belinda suggested . |
| 11 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 12 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 13 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 14 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 15 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 16 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 17 | Most mothers , if forced to leave home for a few days , would entrust their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father . |
| 18 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
| 19 | Edward appeared to think hard for a few moments and then got up and left the room abruptly . |
| 20 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 21 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 22 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 23 | ‘ Fancy skiving off for a few hours ? |
| 24 | ‘ We are both talking nonsense , let us continue to do so for a few more minutes . |
| 25 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 26 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 27 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 28 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 29 | More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish . |
| 30 | There is a fundamental contradiction between the official figures ( which , as Teddy perfectly fairly pointed out , showed that 75 per cent of those who went on Government schemes did secure subsequent employment ) and the common experience that such jobs tended to last only for a few months . |