Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 2 | I could let you have it for a few months until you get sorted out . ’ |
| 3 | So let me leave you with a few wise words . |
| 4 | They let me hold her for a few minutes and then they took her away upstairs to Special Care . |
| 5 | How can they compare themselves to a former professional player who has played in front of ten or twenty thousand people ? ’ |
| 6 | As she went upstairs she saw him toss something in a little glass down his throat in one gulp and she saw the swollen nicotine-stained fingers and the watery bad-tempered eyes . |