Example sentences of "you [verb] [to-vb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 2 | ‘ Did you remember to cut a few inches off the exhaust-pipe ? ’ |
| 3 | Oh and his wife 's got the first name too and the name of the his wife too and then you begin to you begin to put a few equations together . |
| 4 | Yeah , if they come up to you with a microphone and say would you like to say a few words for the television programme yourself |
| 5 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 6 | She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws . |
| 7 | The whole world apart from a handful of Maoris know it as New Zealand … are you trying to con a few subscriptions from them ? |
| 8 | Your family would n't hold you back , and you have a professional qualification that 's highly in demand wherever you go , if you wanted to stay a few years and work . |
| 9 | Oh I see , yes , you have to wait a few minutes . |
| 10 | you have to wait a few days for it to clear do n't ya ? |
| 11 | When your hard drive is nearing capacity and you need to delete a few directories to install your new 5meg program it is not that easy to decide which directories to archive and delete to achieve the required disk space . |