Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 2 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 3 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 4 | If the wife is unable to take a nap in the afternoon when the children are napping , then possibly there is someone who could look after them for a few hours at least one day a week for her to regain her strength . |
| 5 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 6 | It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb . |
| 7 | So with summer holiday time coming up we thought we 'd help the late planners among you with a few ideas on great areas to go walking . |
| 8 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 9 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 10 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 11 | Come back to me in a few weeks with another research proposal . |
| 12 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 13 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 14 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 15 | Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard . |
| 16 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 17 | Elaine watched her for a few minutes before paddling further into the shore , lying on the soft , creamy sand , letting the shallow water caress her feet and legs . |
| 18 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 21 | Susan caught up with her after a few words with Mr Darling . |
| 22 | Those who have a real interest will leave it for a few years before attempting training . |
| 23 | Lisa struck a pose of melodramatic fervour and held it for a few seconds before slumping back in her seat . |
| 24 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 25 | She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away . |
| 26 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 27 | St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 : |
| 28 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
| 29 | ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications . |
| 30 | 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 . |