Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 2 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 3 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 4 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 5 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 6 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 7 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 10 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 11 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 12 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 13 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 14 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 15 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 16 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 17 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 18 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 19 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 20 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 21 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 22 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 23 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 24 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 25 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 26 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 27 | Whereas it is obvious that the launch must be abandoned anywhere near the ground , halfway up the launch it is reasonable to hold on for a few seconds to see if the speed picks up again . |
| 28 | So , the tree which from which bows used in the Battle of Agincourt could have been fashioned seems set to live on for a few more generations yet . |
| 29 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 30 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |