Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 3 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 4 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 5 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 6 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 7 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 8 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 9 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 10 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 11 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 12 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 13 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 14 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 15 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 16 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 17 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 18 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 19 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 20 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 21 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 22 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 23 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 26 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 27 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 28 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 29 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 30 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |