Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself .
2 She wriggled in outrage , but when he caught her head between his hands , pulling back for a few moments to stare intently into her face , she stopped fighting .
3 He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning .
4 In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks .
5 ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’
6 The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe .
7 Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount .
8 Mummy will come back in a few minutes , wo n't she , for Susie ? ’
9 I 'll be back in a few minutes . ’
10 I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave .
11 I 'll be back in a few minutes for our little talk . ’
12 ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly .
13 She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious .
14 Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes
15 We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies !
16 They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due .
17 so she 's got to go back in a few weeks ' time
18 Come back in a few years , eh ? ’
19 ‘ I 'll be back in a few days with your orders . ’
20 Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time .
21 I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’
22 wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then .
23 when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no !
24 I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring .
25 Cut the rootstock back to a few inches high .
26 Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape .
27 think back to a few years back when I was in training about a job and you might still think it now , but I could n't give , put ideas over to somebody on one-to-one training .
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