Example sentences of "to [noun] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
| 2 | On Monday she 's going back to mum for a few days . |
| 3 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
| 4 | In January 1936 Edward went to Windsor for a few weeks . |
| 5 | When King George died in 1952. and Queen Mary died in 1961 , Edward returned to Windsor for a few days . |
| 6 | I knew I was going to Stafford for a few days , but I do n't think , I 'll be there a fortnight . |
| 7 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 8 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
| 9 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
| 10 | Not only have I used whisky instead of the brandy usually specified in pork and liver pâté recipes , which is a question of only about two , but two important , tablespoons to 1½ lb. of the mixture , but I have resorted also to rum ( white rum is especially useful in the kitchen ) and to gin for the same purpose , and the results have been excellent . |
| 11 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 12 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
| 13 | Yeah , you could pop up to Scotland for a few days . |
| 14 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 15 | Even if they return to work for the same firm when their children go to school their seniority is lost . |
| 16 | Typescripts photocopied and distributed that carried the rivulet of dissent from eye to eye for the few who trusted in a future of change and the ultimate destruction of the monolith that controlled their lives . |
| 17 | Still you could always come back to Malia for a little peace and quiet in the local monastery ! |
| 18 | After his retirement as secretary of the English Association in 1950 he spent four years in India , encouraging the growth of youth hostels in that country , and subsequently paid two extended visits to Africa for the same purpose . |
| 19 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 20 | ‘ I told him you would not be returning to Milano for a few days . ’ |
| 21 | It is the equivalent of respecifying a car fleet from Ford Escorts to Sierras for the same price . |
| 22 | As the monk studied God 's Word he would frequently find his heart lifting itself up to God for a few brief but intense moments . |
| 23 | ADVERTISING and public relations group , Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell , yesterday saw its shares rise 9p to 422p on the announcement of a 16 per cent rise in profits before tax to £7.7m for the half year to end June . |
| 24 | Overall the society produced a comparatively strong 6.4 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £237.7m for the half year . |
| 25 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 26 | Having got back to bed for a few hours , at 0800 Captain Moore arrives at his office in the RMP Headquarters , which is housed in the 1936 Olympic Stadium Barracks , and by mid-morning is feeling a bit smug about the noticeable dent in the paperwork on his desk . |
| 27 | When he realises that he has a migraine , my husband retires to bed for a few hours then spends the rest of the day in an armchair . |
| 28 | I 'm going to sleep for a few hours . ’ |
| 29 | First admissions to hospital for the former have fallen from 14 per 100,000 population in 1970 to 9 per 100,000 in 1978 . |
| 30 | Despite a firm diagnosis and explanation being given to both the patient and referring general practitioner , 25 ( 33% ) of all patients were referred again to hospital for the same problem . |