Example sentences of "[prep] it for a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a holiday to discard the worry of it for a few days . |
| 2 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 3 | They can live with it for a few months , but not longer which is why they have such a high turnover of staff . |
| 4 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 5 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 6 | But there was a post on the lonely road and sometimes if I was tired from hunting I would take stance on it for a few moments , to rest . |
| 7 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 8 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 9 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 10 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
| 11 | We will just ask you can we have a look at it for a few days . |