Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 2 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 3 | People are more likely to come home after a few drinks , light a cigarette and then fall asleep , often with tragic consequences . |
| 4 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 6 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 7 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 8 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 9 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 10 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 11 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 12 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 13 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 14 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 15 | This time the Mondays felt the full bite of backlash and came across as a scummy homophobes busy , said writer Stephen Wells , ‘ articulating bootstrap Thatcherism ’ . |
| 16 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 17 | The ceremonies lasted for a month and millions attended , many coming only for a few days . |
| 18 | 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 . " |
| 19 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Coming up in a few minutes , the artist who 's had a six year love affair with the Malvern Hills . |
| 23 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes , the wallaby farmer who 's got something of a baby boom on his hands . |
| 24 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes . |
| 25 | And this information will be linguistically analyzed , and then used to help compile the new dictionary which will be coming out in a few years . |
| 26 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 27 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 28 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 29 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 30 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |