Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 4 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 9 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 10 | The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years , being continually revised , but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat . |
| 11 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 12 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |
| 13 | Cream conditioners are massaged onto hair , left on for a few minutes , then rinsed off . |
| 14 | The Captain and his wife proved so hospitable that Ricky stayed on for a few days after Minton left to stay with Paul ( ‘ Odo ’ ) Cross and Angus Wilson at their home Rio Chico at Ocho Rios . |
| 15 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |