Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 2 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 3 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 4 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 5 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
| 6 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 7 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 8 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 9 | You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice . |
| 10 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Am I alone in detecting a falling away of accuracy — a sloppiness in dealing with facts and quotations which editors would not have tolerated even a few years ago ? ’ |
| 12 | Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago . |
| 13 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
| 14 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 15 | And that was and that was something that was achieved , ha having lived there a few years , you think |
| 16 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 17 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
| 18 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 19 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 20 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 21 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 22 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 23 | I 've done quite a few ads , the latest Marmite ad is mine and now I 've got the part in Brookside which is great , I 'm really enjoying it . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I 've done quite a few police jobs and appeared in front of the Royal Family . |
| 25 | I know down at Evans I 've noticed quite a few things in there , there are different |
| 26 | Peach and cherry trees are out in blossom , and we 've seen quite a few birds . |
| 27 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 28 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 29 | erm right in the book and other ones I 've read , cos I 've also got , well I 've got quite a few journals with |
| 30 | You 've got a golf course , you 've got quite a few things round here , you 've even , you 've got your school just a bit , you know up past . |