Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] have a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me . |
| 2 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 3 | I only had a few weeks . |
| 4 | Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that . |
| 5 | I still have a few copies and am sending this one for you to see . |
| 6 | I also had a few problems trying to create a link between a table in a document and the spreadsheet the data came from . |
| 7 | Usually , if the speed is low , you only have a few seconds either to lower the nose or to reduce the amount of airbrake to avoid a bad landing . |
| 8 | So she says give us your twenty quid , cos she only had a few bits did n't she ? |
| 9 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |
| 10 | So you , well then you 'll still not know what you 're going out with because you still have a few days from last week to get . |
| 11 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 12 | She still had a few hours of useful painting time left , but now she could not concentrate . |
| 13 | By now , you probably have a few ideas of sights and scenes to visit . |
| 14 | This method involves a little bit of a cheat as the Macintosh keyboard can not access the PostScript fractions unless you either have a special fractions font or are using one of the new Adobe Expert fonts with an extended and re-mapped character set . |
| 15 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 16 | Well could n't we just have a few things |
| 17 | The only problem was that we nearly had a few fatalities . |
| 18 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 19 | ‘ I do remember , at the discussions with Verity , they even had a few sketches done of the kind of clothes she would wear . |
| 20 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |
| 21 | He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went . |