Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 2 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 3 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 4 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 5 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 6 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 7 | I think he 'd done a few Compact 's up to then , but he was marvellous . |
| 8 | Frankly , she looked as if she 'd got a few bundles of twelve-page letters stuffed up her woolly even now . |
| 9 | I 'm sure he 'd got a few more bits of paper on his desk than what shall we do about P E Ps ? |
| 10 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 11 | And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been savaged by love , ’ she would declaim , when she 'd had a few . |
| 13 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 14 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 15 | Dad was a jolly chap sober , or could be , but when he 'd had a few he thought himself a bit of a lady-killer . |
| 16 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 17 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
| 18 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 19 | Well , he 'd had a few — I mean , he probably should n't have said what he did . |
| 20 | ‘ I said he 'd had a few . |
| 21 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
| 22 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |
| 23 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 24 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 25 | If you 'd heard him talk about her when he 'd had a few you 'd think different . |
| 26 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 27 | Usually when he 'd had a few . |
| 28 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |
| 29 | She did n't correct enough or she lost control or maybe she 'd had a few bevvies . |
| 30 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |