Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a routine call on the bereaved Mrs Place who had lost her father and who might soon be a widow , who had perhaps shed a few tears , but not very many . |
| 2 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 3 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 4 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 5 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 6 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 7 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 8 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 9 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 10 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 11 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 12 | Finally , before anyone reminds me that there is a further important predatory invertebrate group , the Echinoderms , I had better add a few lines . |
| 13 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 14 | Bridges waited until 1918 , by which time he was poet laureate , before publishing a nearly complete edition , but he had already published a few poems individually to test the reception of the shockingly unfamiliar rhythm and language . |
| 15 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 16 | I inquired after my brother , Max , who had finally agreed a few months ago to work for Dad 's firm , and I established that he was in Paris for a few more days . |
| 17 | They had always spent a few weeks every year in Ireland , relaxing and visiting old friends . |
| 18 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The effect of the collar and the cameo were remarkable , as Helen herself had dispassionately noted a few minutes before in her mirror : they made her look softer , prettier and younger . |
| 21 | On a brief evening stroll Maxim had also noticed a few tourists who had clearly solved the problem of eating whilst asleep ; it is an oddity of American that only tourists are truly fat never the locals . |
| 22 | Their marriage had nearly ended a few months back . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He waited until she had obediently taken a few sips of the ale , before propping one knee on the bed beside her and jerking her face up to his . |