Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 32 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 33 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 34 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 35 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 36 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 37 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 38 | I 've told him no more sex till he gets back into shape . ’ |
| 39 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 40 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 41 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she began , taking up her basket . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor . |
| 43 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 44 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 45 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 46 | She told him her husband had left her a few months before for another woman . |
| 47 | That had taken me a little time , partly as I was still sleepy , partly as I had so convinced myself Old Red had reported me . |
| 48 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 49 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 50 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 51 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 52 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 53 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 54 | Michel 's told me a few things about himself ; he comes from a family of lawyers and administrators . |
| 55 | ‘ And Seb 's ridden him a few times . |