Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 32 | just for a few bits and pieces and any extras and |
| 33 | Innumerable country spires turn bronze amid newly ploughed fields of copper , just for a few moments before the ball disappears . |
| 34 | Yes , just for a few questions if you 've gathered your thoughts together . |
| 35 | ‘ Just for a few days or so … something to ease the pain ? ’ |
| 36 | She made a mental note to check the tariff later with the receptionist — there would be little point in living so comfortably for a few weeks if the bill swallowed most of her wages at the end of it . |
| 37 | and even if you do n't it 's gon na c you know And er you get a few choice words and then eventually you say Well well look we 'll go outside and sit outside for a few minutes and d and wait till you 've decided what and do n't forget i time you kn you kn |
| 38 | It 's a wonderful opportunity , please do n't discard it out of hand because of pride or pique , just think it over for a few days and let me know your decision when you are ready . ’ |
| 39 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 40 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 41 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 42 | They will certainly leave the Centre much fitter than When they arrived , but not without a few bumps and bruises sustained along the way . |
| 43 | Tony sat quite still for a few moments and then parked his car on the wasteland at the side of the theatre . |
| 44 | Dip this end into hormone rooting powder while it is still moist from the cut so that some powder adheres , shake or tap off the surplus and lay it aside for a few minutes while the others are being prepared . |
| 45 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 46 | ‘ He may decide to hold off for a few days and give steroids to develop the lungs , ’ Belinda suggested . |
| 47 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 48 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 49 | 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 ? |
| 50 | We actually split up for a few days because his mother sent a Christmas card to him and not to me . |
| 51 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 52 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 53 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 54 | She thought carefully for a few moments before she said , ‘ Silas — are n't you being unreasonable and somewhat unfair to both yourself and to Doreen ? ’ |
| 55 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 56 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 57 | Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ? |
| 58 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 59 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 60 | Gesner would be on in a few moments and then the thing would lift off . |