Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 2 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 3 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 4 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 5 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 6 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 7 | I have been persuaded by the publishers to adopt the spellings on the latest maps of the Ordnance Survey and where these differ from those previously accepted have done so with reluctance , rebelling only in a few cases of change in long-familiar names . |
| 8 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 9 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 10 | ‘ Fancy skiving off for a few hours ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | She wriggled in outrage , but when he caught her head between his hands , pulling back for a few moments to stare intently into her face , she stopped fighting . |
| 13 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 14 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 15 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm fine now and looking forward to getting home for a few days . |
| 17 | We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies ! |
| 18 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 19 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 20 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 21 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 22 | The ceremonies lasted for a month and millions attended , many coming only for a few days . |
| 23 | Nobody else was importing much beyond a few bottles of sweet red sparkling stuff from Crimea , so he had the field to himself . |
| 24 | I have another important foreign call coming through in a few minutes , so , if you 'll excuse me , I 'll hand you over to the Chief Accountant now . " |
| 25 | After trudging disconsolately round a few bars , I went back to our cheap hostel , where to my relief I found Dana snoring in the double bed we were to share . |
| 26 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 27 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 28 | Welcome back to Central News : coming up in a few minutes , the sheep farmer who 's opened his farm yard to the public for the lambing season . |
| 29 | Coming up in a few minutes , the artist who 's had a six year love affair with the Malvern Hills . |
| 30 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes , the wallaby farmer who 's got something of a baby boom on his hands . |