Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [noun] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
| 2 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 3 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 4 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 5 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 6 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 7 | Among other things there is no sign of any late qualms about his reliance on the Apollo-Dionysus formula : as he had remarked to Rohde a few months earlier , " I really believe I can get a great deal out of the polarity . " |
| 8 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 9 | ‘ I have worked with Paul a few times . |