Example sentences of "i had [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.

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1 Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country .
2 There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford .
3 ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round .
4 I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there .
5 Finally , before anyone reminds me that there is a further important predatory invertebrate group , the Echinoderms , I had better add a few lines .
6 Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching .
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