Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously we had a few injuries at the start of the season , so hopefully we can go from strength to strength now .
2 So he had a thousand women
3 Why , we 've scarcely begun , and already we have a few clients .
4 Already we have a few examples of the end-product of several stages of processing , although we do not yet understand the mechanisms .
5 The police would have to be told about Zoe 's murder tomorrow , but tonight he had a few hours of peace .
6 And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space .
7 Well we had a few problems did n't we ?
8 On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 .
9 Unfortunately we had a few lapses of concentration at the start of the second half and you just ca n't afford that against a team as good as Australia .
10 Then we have a million households where the woman is the sole breadwinner .
11 Scum fans are getting to cocky , unfortunatly I have a few friends and relatives who have not yet seen the light , They think they are unbeatable at the moment and could do the domestic treble .
12 ‘ Sir — You are an Anti-Reformer — and therefore we have a few words to say to you — When the news reached Glasgow of the defeat of the Reform Bill , did you attend the Royal Exchange Rooms ?
13 We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now .
14 Afterwards he had a few words with Hob 's wife , the children cowering around her .
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