Example sentences of "out [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
2 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
3 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
4 | We take our clothes off and I stick my penis into you and pull it in and out for a few minutes and white stuff comes out and you say ‘ Is that it ? ’ |
5 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
6 | ‘ Mr Drewer 's out for a few minutes — can I help ? ’ his secretary asked . |
7 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
8 | Scotsmen , Englishmen , and Welshmen joined with local fighters like Spider Kelly , Jackie Quinn , and Rinty Monaghan to slug it out for a few pounds . |
9 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
10 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
11 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
12 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
13 | The sweet williams would n't be out for a few days . |
14 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
15 | Ask Lina if she 'd like to come up and help out for a few weeks ? |
16 | ‘ I would roll over on my ankle and it would pop out for a few seconds and click back in again ’ . |
17 | No answer , then Spencer passed out for a few seconds , only to wake to the pungent smell of burning and the sharp realisation that he must now get out of the thing . |
18 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |
19 | There are many different varieties of scabetic mite infesting various mammals , and , although the mites from different animals appear to be similar , they are probably species specific because infestation by the mite from domestic animals does not ‘ take ’ in the human and dies out after a few weeks . |
20 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
21 | Cos I 've got to go out in a few minutes . |
22 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
23 | Production of the Japanese industry 's two principal profit earners — the F-15J fighter and the P-3C anti-submarine aircraft , both built under licence from the United States — will peter out in a few years ' time . |
24 | And this information will be linguistically analyzed , and then used to help compile the new dictionary which will be coming out in a few years . |
25 | He 'll be out in a few years time . |
26 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |
27 | He was also ensuring that their first record , The Bride of Christ , would be out in a few weeks . |
28 | MONSTROUSLY EPIC , hypnotic UK hard house due out in a few weeks . |
29 | It will no doubt sort itself out in a few days . ’ |
30 | Yet in most of the cases they present , the hoaxer was found out within a few years and promptly punished with significant disgrace . |