Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 2 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 3 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 4 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 5 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 6 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 7 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 8 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 9 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 10 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 11 | Jenny had gone without a few things in her youth and was determined that their boy would lack nothing . |
| 12 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 13 | She had passed through a few rooms . |
| 14 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 15 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 16 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 17 | After the action had lasted for a few minutes , County Inspector Meharg , through a loudhailer , ordered : ‘ The police will hold their hands , please . ’ |