Example sentences of "[verb] a [det] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send a few pages for a free quotation . |
| 2 | He and his wife Shirley — who have a married daughter — will also buy a few things for the house with their summer windfall . |
| 3 | But David Townsend , director of Croydon SSD , has complained to Herbert Laming , SSI chief inspector , that inspectors should wait a few months for the reforms to bed down . |
| 4 | The Americans and British , intent on not getting stuck in the town , wandered in and out talking of electricity and sanitation , then said they would send a few soldiers for a short time . |
| 5 | Doing his best to stay awake , he chatted to Mills until satisfied that the other was convinced of his academic credentials and then , to get rid of him before Syrian George arrived to transcribe the night 's tapes and give the game away , sent him over to see Hurley , who wanted to know if Mills , in the course of his travels in and out of Lebanon for Newsweek , would like to shoot a few pictures for the DEA . |
| 6 | You know cos at least you 've got a few fields for the kids to play on and you 've got a decent park , you 've got a nice pub just down the road and then you 've got the big sports hall . |
| 7 | There was a bar at the entrance where one paid a few marks for a drink , and behind a curtain an auditorium of perhaps twenty or thirty comfortable seats . |
| 8 | ‘ Surely it did n't hurt you to spare a few minutes for an old man ? ’ |
| 9 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 10 | I just want to spread a few good words and hopefully raise a few pounds for the three groups that I am involved with , ’ says Rosemary . |
| 11 | Although it takes a few minutes for the body to send out any strong signals of satiety it is probable that chewing and swallowing movements do begin to send messages to the brain . |
| 12 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 13 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 14 | After browsing in the local bookshop and buying a few necessities for the flat , I decided to leave for the course . |
| 15 | He said they were fine , but that it might take a few weeks for the lenses to settle in my eyes . |
| 16 | I found out how well after a serious filter failure while away , but it did take a few days for the lethargic specimen to return to full health . |
| 17 | Quinn eased the armchair away from the wall , grunted a few times for the benefit of the wall microphone , switched off the tape-recorder , rolled on to the bed and genuinely went to sleep . |
| 18 | It took a few days for the butis to decide to employ me , since I clearly was not about to join the Community , but I kept coming back and mucking in and it just sort of happened . |
| 19 | I should , however , add a few words for the benefit of any student who wishes to research more deeply . |
| 20 | We got £110 for doing the gig , but the PA cost us £105 to hire , so we bought beer with the other fiver — and that 's when you could get a few beers for a fiver ! |
| 21 | Yeah I was doing their printing for them and er I 've also taken a few shots for the Chronicle . |
| 22 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 23 | Before the programme starts you will be invited to say a few words for the sound balance . |
| 24 | Yeah , if they come up to you with a microphone and say would you like to say a few words for the television programme yourself |
| 25 | ACE Communications Ltd has come up with Spidernet ( a name that may cause a few concerns for the Edinburgh-based Spider Systems Ltd ) a hub that supports both Token Ring and direct-attached coaxial and twinaxial connections . |