Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |
| 4 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 5 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 6 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 7 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |