Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years . |
| 2 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 3 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 4 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 6 | She would have passed me by a few feet , perhaps not noticing me . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I did that , ’ she told him flatly , ‘ but if that was your intention which I doubt , do n't you think it might have been kinder to have left me with a few illusions ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 9 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 10 | A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower . |
| 11 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 12 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 13 | Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain . |
| 14 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 15 | It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb . |
| 16 | ‘ Twice you have surprised me within a few minutes , Mr. Preston . |