Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 7 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 10 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 16 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 17 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 18 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 21 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 22 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 25 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 26 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 27 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 30 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |