Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope held the position for a few moments more to rest his leg and get his breath back . |
| 2 | They lingered a few moments more to admire the Palladian house which stood before them , beyond an ornamental lake crossed by a fine stone bridge , lying in a fold of the rolling parkland , as if held in the palm of a vast green hand . |
| 3 | Both of us need a few moments alone to come to terms with things . |
| 4 | Or have you ever needed a break from the pressures of work and paid a few pounds more to escape the holiday crowds ? |
| 5 | Again if you shop around you should find a bargain but you might think it worth spending a few pounds more to get extra help and advice . |
| 6 | I climbed into my sleeping bag and slipped from one dreamworld into another , waking a few hours later to drift down through birdsong in the cool forest to the jarring heat and bustle of Aviemore . |
| 7 | But after he had simmered down and contemplated his parlous financial situation , he returned a few hours later to accept Gilroy 's offer . |
| 8 | We 've given you a few hints how to say them , dance to them , put great big eight foot wide papier mâché masks on to do them if you want . |
| 9 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 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 returned a few minutes later to find the cube assembled . |
| 12 | Getting lazily to his feet , he went out , and returned a few minutes later to announce , ‘ There 's a snack being laid out for you in the dining-room . |
| 13 | The starts of Flatliners ( 15 ) — including off-screen lovers Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland — find a way to die for a few minutes just to see what life is like ‘ on the other side ’ . |
| 14 | We 'll try it a few times just to put it all into practice . |
| 15 | Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation . |
| 16 | Okay we changed a few words just to fit the words we could find , but yes , we , we had about a minute at the end , we read it through , and yes , it was fine . |
| 17 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 18 | But let's toss a few images about to gauge the potential extent of U2 's mesmerising all-round appeal . |
| 19 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 20 | Already the muster was a week late ; and there were not a few contingents still to come in , including the Regent 's own . |
| 21 | It would help if , perhaps , you could take a few days longer to prepare a considered report . " |
| 22 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
| 23 | Cromwell summoned Richard Baxter again a few days later to discuss the subject of liberty of conscience in the presence of most of the Privy Council . |
| 24 | He returned a few days later to meet the proprietors and Bernard , recognizing there was a limit to their own international expansion at this stage , and ever keen to find outlets for the masses of cloth being printed , immediately proposed to Trevaskis that they worked together , not in competition . |
| 25 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 26 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 27 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 28 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |
| 29 | Child benefit is the only benefit which is in fact available to women , even then the government tried a few years ago to change that and to make it paid to the man . |
| 30 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |