Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 2 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 3 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 4 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |
| 5 | Finally , before anyone reminds me that there is a further important predatory invertebrate group , the Echinoderms , I had better add a few lines . |
| 6 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 7 | He waited until she had obediently taken a few sips of the ale , before propping one knee on the bed beside her and jerking her face up to his . |
| 8 | She had already found a few unexpected steps , up or down , and slammed a toe against a new level . |
| 9 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 10 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 11 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 12 | They had always spent a few weeks every year in Ireland , relaxing and visiting old friends . |
| 13 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 14 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 15 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 16 | Unhappily , it had only lasted a few short weeks , but all their friends still shuddered at the memory of their truly spectacular fights ! |
| 17 | Bridges waited until 1918 , by which time he was poet laureate , before publishing a nearly complete edition , but he had already published a few poems individually to test the reception of the shockingly unfamiliar rhythm and language . |
| 18 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 19 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 20 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |