Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |
| 32 | Erm , Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |
| 33 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 34 | For a while Elaine was cared for by young volunteers who used to come and stay with her for a few months at a time . |
| 35 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 36 | Will talked with him for a few minutes , then gave him a penny . |
| 37 | You know he 's twenty two , twenty three years old , you know , you know whatever he 's doing he 's liable to be with him for a few years yet and what can one see |
| 38 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 39 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 40 | They can live with it for a few months , but not longer which is why they have such a high turnover of staff . |
| 41 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 42 | One day during the early summer , Guy Gibson of Dam Busters fame flew in to Bourn and was with us for a few hours . |
| 43 | ‘ Let's invite him to stay with us for a few days , then you can ask him yourself . ’ |
| 44 | When Shanti had been with us for a few days , a friend said to me , ‘ I saw Michael out with the baby in the pram , and I do n't think I 've seen a man look happier in my life . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ She 's been staying with us for a few days . ’ |
| 46 | About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house . |
| 47 | ‘ And do n't worry if you do n't hear from me for a few days . |
| 48 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 49 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 50 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
| 51 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 52 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 53 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 54 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
| 55 | ‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 56 | It could also mean ‘ Will you talk to me for a few minutes , I feel sad . ’ |
| 57 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 58 | ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ? |
| 59 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |
| 60 | If I could just talk to someone for a few minutes . |