Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 2 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 3 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 4 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 5 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 6 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 7 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 8 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 9 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 10 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 13 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 14 | We weighed each other up for a few moments without speaking . |
| 15 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 16 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 17 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 18 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 19 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |