Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning over a few leaves . |
| 2 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 3 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 4 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 5 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 6 | K.S. Karol turns up a few stones — and discovers what wriggles underneath . |
| 7 | If you turn over a few chapters in Matthew , into chapter fourteen , you 've got another er watery illustration there , it 's , Jesus is coming towards the disciples , he walking on the water ! |
| 8 | It was certainly slow , but then computers somehow nowadays can take months to turn out a few seconds of screen time . |
| 9 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |