Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning .
2 On his last day , feeling a little guilty about sending his wife out shopping , he said , ‘ ’ There 's no need to go shopping today , love , I notice you have a nice bit of boiled ham in the fridge , I 'll have that with a few tomatoes . ' ’
3 We should have that in a few minutes on the , the quotes side , Mark 's gon na bring them in to me .
4 So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation .
5 Could you leave this for a few days until I 'm fresher ? ’
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