Example sentences of "[pron] a few [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you what anyway Jim I 'm coming back next week to er give you a few answers coming out of this fact find so |
| 3 | I 'll give you a few minutes to revise , then er , we can see if the er lesson Does anyone know what time the coffee break is er ? |
| 4 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 5 | So erm right now I think we might as well erm allow things to draw naturally to a close there so um let's see erm this gives you a few minutes to catch your breath in time for video , for those of you who 're erm intending to watch it . |
| 6 | You know your workbooks that you 've got , he 's actually asking you a few questions relating to the statistics that er , Dr. Bernard 's going to mention , so can I ask you to get your workbooks and a pen , just so that you can jot down some of the information . |
| 7 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 8 | And we 're very grateful , you 've brought rural interest , you 've brought much wider interest , and you 've brought a great deal of warmth and compassion and interest and time , what more could we say , but to show a token of our appreciation and give you a few flowers to go with that . |
| 9 | I 'll fry you a few courgettes to go with it , and I 'll boil the potatoes now , so all you have to do is remember to put everything in the fridge once it 's cool enough … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Afraid your lords and masters will fire you if you allow me a few minutes to put the subject on hold ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Give me a few minutes to clean up and we 'll go to the Swan Inn . ’ |
| 12 | It gave me a few minutes to stop and think about what the hell I was doing . |
| 13 | It took me a few minutes to feel brave enough to try her again . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 15 | It took me a few minutes to get the hang of things when I put the Legend through an amp . |
| 16 | If we were sitting in a room and someone came in talking or making a noise , Dawn would panic and it would take me a few minutes to calm her down . |
| 17 | It took me a few months to realise that my life was changed completely . |
| 18 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 19 | It took them a few moments to find it . |
| 20 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 21 | There a few items lying around on the battlements for the adventurers to find : old arrows and rusty arrowheads , a bucketful of congealed pitch , a bunch of rotten torches tied up with twine , a rotted length of rope and the like . |
| 22 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 23 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 24 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 25 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 26 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 27 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 28 | It took her a few minutes to realise what it was . |
| 29 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
| 30 | And we saw it a few times did n't we ? |