Example sentences of "[pers pn] in a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ See you in a few minutes , Ben , ’ she said smiling . |
| 2 | She 'll bring it to you in a few minutes and it 'll help you keep your strength . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll be with you in a few minutes . |
| 4 | See you in a few minutes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If someone does n't help you in a few minutes you will die . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll be with you in a few minutes , ’ and he whipped up his coat from among a stack of luggage and instruments lying in the hall , and taking her by the arm he hurried her through the kitchen . |
| 7 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |
| 8 | JEWKES : Do you know , sir , that Her Ladyship , your sister , intends to be down here with you in a few days ? |
| 9 | On a personal level I ca n't go off and say ‘ Bye darling ’ , I 'll see you in a few years . |
| 10 | See you in a few years time with fucking . |
| 11 | See you in a few weeks again . |
| 12 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 13 | Come back to me in a few weeks with another research proposal . |
| 14 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 15 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 16 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
| 17 | ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days . |
| 18 | The vast X-ray energies suddenly dumped in their little laps will kill them in a few seconds , giving the fastest cures on record . |
| 19 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 20 | ‘ Good , tell him I 'll be with him in a few minutes … and Bourne , notify Dr Franks . ’ |
| 21 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 22 | I told him I would contact him in a few days , but I never did . |
| 23 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 24 | Go and see her in a few days . |
| 25 | I am having the matter looked into , and I shall make a statement about it in a few minutes . |
| 26 | Yeah , probably did it in a few hours |
| 27 | ‘ Well I 'll put it in a few words . |
| 28 | St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 : |
| 29 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 30 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |