Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 2 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 3 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 4 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 5 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 6 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 7 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 8 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 9 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |