Example sentences of "it [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 32 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 33 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 34 | Lisa struck a pose of melodramatic fervour and held it for a few seconds before slumping back in her seat . |
| 35 | Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too . |
| 36 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
| 37 | We will just ask you can we have a look at it for a few days . |
| 38 | ‘ Do n't use it for a few days , and see how it goes . ’ |
| 39 | It would be a holiday to discard the worry of it for a few days . |
| 40 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 41 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 42 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 43 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
| 44 | She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away . |
| 45 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 46 | I am having the matter looked into , and I shall make a statement about it in a few minutes . |
| 47 | Yeah , probably did it in a few hours |
| 48 | ‘ Well I 'll put it in a few words . |
| 49 | St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 : |
| 50 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 51 | That does not render it inedible if you cook it within a few hours — or freeze it immediately . |
| 52 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
| 53 | As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle . |
| 54 | I 'll would outgrown it within a few months . |
| 55 | The Provisional IRA have also used it on a few occasions . |
| 56 | ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications . |
| 57 | Yes I know cos you did have it on a few weeks ago . |