Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] for a [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 5 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | Can SHe stay here for a few days ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 10 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 15 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 16 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |
| 17 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 18 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 19 | She said to me , " Ca n't you get away for a few days ? " |
| 20 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 21 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ Moreover ’ , it says , ‘ in the last recessionary cycle the peak in business failures did not occur until some 18 months after the recession ended and even then the level of insolvencies did not reduce significantly for a further years . ’ |
| 23 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 24 | Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ? |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 27 | Ask Lina if she 'd like to come up and help out for a few weeks ? |
| 28 | ‘ I would roll over on my ankle and it would pop out for a few seconds and click back in again ’ . |