Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 2 | Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team . |
| 3 | Now she is learning to walk again and has already had a few day visits home . |
| 4 | It has also gained a few floors . |
| 5 | He has also missed a few internationals through injury . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I see you got your hair cut by the scenic route , ’ she remarks to one gentleman who has neatly slicked a few strands over his bald patch . |
| 7 | ‘ But the horse has certainly had a few adventures in the meantime . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better break a few rules . ’ |
| 9 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 10 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 11 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 12 | We 'd all had a few drinks . |
| 13 | Having just spent a few nights in a major-accident ward , I 'd rather be late than hurry . ’ |
| 14 | It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many . |
| 15 | They , they 've suddenly had a few outbreaks of polio have n't they ? |
| 16 | So you 've obviously dropped a few marks on that . |
| 17 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 18 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 19 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
| 20 | You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’ |
| 21 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 22 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 23 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 24 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 25 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 26 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 27 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 28 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 29 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 30 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |