Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 2 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 3 | ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days . |
| 4 | One hour later we dissociated the nerves , cultured them for a few hours , and double-labelled them with an anti-BrdU antibody and an antibody that labels oligodendrocyte precursor cells . |
| 5 | ‘ You know the heat is off , Ruth , ’ he told her , his eyes catching hers and holding them for a few seconds . |
| 6 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
| 7 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 8 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 9 | She could supply them with a few answers . |
| 10 | Do a few products and then , leave them for a few days and go back and integrate them . |
| 11 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 12 | The vessels ' hulls are completely intact , and the team hopes to raise them within a few years . |
| 13 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 14 | The vast X-ray energies suddenly dumped in their little laps will kill them in a few seconds , giving the fastest cures on record . |