Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a 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 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 .
3 Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing .
4 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 .
5 I 've had to deal with a few . ’
6 We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations .
7 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 .
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