Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 2 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 3 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 4 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 5 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |
| 6 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 7 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 8 | Let us begin here with a few facts — and also some fallacies — about the present . |
| 9 | And you 'll see why in a few moments . |
| 10 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 11 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 12 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 13 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 14 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 15 | Well thank you very much , it 's obviously a totally different point of view to what we 'll hear perhaps in a few minutes . |
| 16 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 17 | ‘ Then , if you would also remain here for a few moments , Madame Ash , perhaps Madame Craig would be so kind as to come this way ? ’ |
| 18 | Can SHe stay here for a few days ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 20 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 21 | Well you can go outside in a few minutes . |
| 22 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 23 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 24 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 25 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 26 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
| 27 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 28 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 29 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 30 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |