Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] a few [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 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
4 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
7 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
8 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
12 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
13 | 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 . " |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Coming up in a few minutes , the artist who 's had a six year love affair with the Malvern Hills . |
17 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes , the wallaby farmer who 's got something of a baby boom on his hands . |
18 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
23 | Mummy will come back in a few minutes , wo n't she , for Susie ? ’ |
24 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |
25 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
26 | instead of just going , you should of said oh I just come up for a few days |
27 | Come back in a few years , eh ? ’ |
28 | Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ? |