Example sentences of "he had [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
2 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
3 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
4 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
5 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
6 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
7 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
8 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
9 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
10 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |
11 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
12 | On the other hand , Lindsey found herself thinking , if Niall smiled at her the way he had smiled a few minutes ago , the dear lady probably would n't even need an anaesthetic ! |
13 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |