Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 2 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 3 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
| 4 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 5 | Monica made her comment to Tweed when Buchanan and Warden had left after a few more minutes ' conversation . |
| 6 | Flowers of emerald and trees of silver decorating a ground made of powdered gold had changed in a few helpless throbs into body-crushed vegetation , stained ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |