Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , yes , she 'll just have an or orange when I came out , she 's been , I 've been getting a few of those , it seems to help a bit |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 3 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 4 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 5 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 6 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 7 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 9 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 10 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 11 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 12 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 14 | , so we 've been doing a few need a good wash |
| 15 | Corden added : ‘ Tuesday 's result was very disappointing but we have been carrying a few injuries . |
| 16 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |
| 17 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 18 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 19 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 20 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 21 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 22 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 23 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 24 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |