Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 32 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 33 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 34 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 35 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 36 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 37 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 40 | Rose drove silently for a few minutes . |
| 41 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 42 | Brian sits reflectively for a few moments … |
| 43 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 44 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 45 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 46 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 47 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 48 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 49 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 50 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 51 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 52 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 53 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 54 | He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was upset by the news . |
| 55 | ‘ Fancy skiving off for a few hours ? |
| 56 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 57 | She wriggled in outrage , but when he caught her head between his hands , pulling back for a few moments to stare intently into her face , she stopped fighting . |
| 58 | just lie here for a few moments . |
| 59 | Nottinghamshire SSD had tried to avoid applying for powers under a care order to remove three children from their home by going instead for a prohibited steps order to exclude their abusing father . |
| 60 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |