Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |
| 32 | had this one on for a few days . |
| 33 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 34 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 35 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 36 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 37 | She may , for example , lay it down for a few seconds while she opens the entrance to her hole . |
| 38 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 39 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 40 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 41 | He sat down for a few moments to consider his position . |
| 42 | The thought damped George down for a few miles ; then he asked : ‘ How are the eyes ? ’ |
| 43 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 44 | Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ? |
| 45 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 46 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'm just in for a few tests , ’ he said . |
| 48 | Even so , it was not unusual for friends and kinsmen to drop in for a few minutes , an hour , to see the news or a comedy . |
| 49 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 50 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 51 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 52 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 53 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 54 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 55 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 56 | You 're in for a few surprises . |
| 57 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 58 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 59 | And the animals were certainly in for a few surprises as our team of ten raced by wearing bright yellow ‘ Wimpey Worldwide ’ T-shirts and hard hats . |
| 60 | If Baldwin met Parliament , Lloyd George might keep the Conservatives in for a few weeks to humiliate them . |