Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments . |
| 2 | For the historian of modern urbanization , scores of cities are available for direct inspection , while the ancient historian has to make do with a few fortuitous survivals . |
| 3 | It was not a good year for them to start with , and this year 's explosion in grey squirrel numbers seems to have put paid to the few that did form . |
| 4 | Half way through the Blackeyes saga , it looks as though we are going to have to make do with a few set pieces of one-to-one hostility . |
| 5 | It was as if , thought the queen-dowager fancifully , the world had stopped turning for a few moments , immobilised by the enormity of her action . |
| 6 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
| 7 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 8 | I 've had to deal with a few . ’ |
| 9 | Unknown to many of the trapped men , but suspected by the more experienced , poisonous gases had started to gather in the few roadways available to them . |
| 10 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
| 11 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |