Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 3 | 5 Return the turkey or chicken pieces to the pan and cook gently for a few minutes . |
| 4 | Add the bacon and venison and cook quickly for a few minutes , stirring frequently , to seal the meat . |
| 5 | Add the ginger , garlic and Curry Powder , fry gently for a few minutes . |
| 6 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 7 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 8 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 9 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 10 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 11 | just lie here for a few moments . |
| 12 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 13 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 14 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 15 | Go home for a few hours . |
| 16 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 17 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 18 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 19 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 20 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 21 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 22 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 23 | instead of just going , you should of said oh I just come up for a few days |