Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years , being continually revised , but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat . |
| 4 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 5 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 6 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 7 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 8 | The weather was still warm and sunny , though , an Indian summer that looked like stretching on for a few more days yet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 11 | I had thrown away my chances in life , pawned them off for a few cheap thrills . |
| 12 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 13 | Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns . |
| 14 | If you leave the vehicle , the heat from the engine soaks into the carb and thaws it out for a few more miles . |
| 15 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 18 | I think I 've enough of my own without looking round for a few more . ’ |