Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] earlier " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffey died in Bromley , Middlesex , 26 November 1852 , his eldest son Aeneas having died a few months earlier . |
| 2 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 3 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 4 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 5 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 6 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |
| 7 | His behaviour , as the Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot had noted a hundred years earlier , was the prerogative of princes . |
| 8 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 9 | If this had happened a few years earlier — ’ |
| 10 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 11 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |