Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 2 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 3 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 4 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 5 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 6 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 7 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 10 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 11 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 12 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 13 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 14 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 15 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 16 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 17 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 18 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 20 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 21 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 22 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 25 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |
| 26 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 27 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 28 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 29 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 30 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |