Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 3 | 5 Return the turkey or chicken pieces to the pan and cook gently for a few minutes . |
| 4 | Add the bacon and venison and cook quickly for a few minutes , stirring frequently , to seal the meat . |
| 5 | Add the ginger , garlic and Curry Powder , fry gently for a few minutes . |
| 6 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 7 | At 11.15 a.m. the 29 enthusiastic players teed off from a few tees . |
| 8 | As the name suggests , the sole purpose of the group was to have fun , and perhaps show off to a few friends . |
| 9 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 10 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 11 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 12 | Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons . |
| 13 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 14 | Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year . |
| 15 | In their over-all coverage , therefore Genesis and the tradition represented by Atrakhasis look back to the same events . |
| 16 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 17 | just lie here for a few moments . |
| 18 | Irish rugby is notorious for peaks and troughs , so look forward to a few peaks from now onwards . |
| 19 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 20 | You 've said ‘ Fire ! ’ and seen the price of a dozen cameras blow away in a few seconds ' worth of flash and bang , with nothing left at the end to stick in the family album . |
| 21 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 22 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
| 23 | We were therefore left with two alternatives , to concentrate on particular aspects of " Manpower Control " using very few slides , or alternatively deal briefly with the many aspects of this topic in order to demonstrate the potential of the system available to us . |
| 24 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 25 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 26 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 27 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 28 | Go home for a few hours . |
| 29 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 30 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |