Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] for a [det] " 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 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 5 | ‘ He may decide to hold off for a few days and give steroids to develop the lungs , ’ Belinda suggested . |
| 6 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 8 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | ‘ Fancy skiving off for a few hours ? |
| 12 | 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 . |