Example sentences of "have [verb] a few [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiat , which has lost a few employees in Italy 's corruption scandals , issued a ‘ code of business ethics ’ . |
| 2 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 3 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 4 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 5 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 6 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 7 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 8 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 9 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 10 | It will also have learned a few lessons in how not to go about setting up a business . |
| 11 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
| 12 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 13 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 14 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 15 | But I 've noticed a few faces in the crowd and it wo n't be long . |
| 16 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 18 | Oh you , now you 've got a few letters in there L that 's an |
| 19 | I 've got a few shares in British Aerospace , but nobody would notice if I sold them all . |
| 20 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 21 | And I er was talking to her down the lane when Mrs Monday and I asked her how she was and she said oh I 've had a few falls in the house and all . |
| 22 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 23 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 24 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 25 | I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it . |
| 26 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 27 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've put a few things in the room you might need — toiletries and something to wear to sleep in . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've read a few books in my time , and there 's one thing I 've learned … there 's a difference between education and being well read . ’ |
| 30 | I have seen a few salmon in my time and caught a few too but this thing was not like a salmon at all . |