Example sentences of "[pron] have few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had few secrets from her . |
| 2 | I have few qualms about it . |
| 3 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 4 | She has few hopes of happiness in marriage . |
| 5 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 6 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 7 | She had few regrets in leaving the house . |
| 8 | At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident . |
| 9 | ‘ There are but two , we have few offenders in the general way of things . |
| 10 | Most of the supreme mystics have been celibate , so we have few guides in discerning the beauty of conjugal love . |
| 11 | The rooms he opened for her had few signs of childish occupation . |
| 12 | They had few friends in France , and without them the dazzling night life meant nothing . |
| 13 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 14 | as indeed they were in 1922–23 , but they had few prospects under coalition . |
| 15 | MCKENNAS have shown they have few equals in the Antrim District Darts League with a 10–0 whitewash Skeffington . |
| 16 | They have few demands beyond a supply of food and water . |
| 17 | He has few hobbies outside of football although , even with his eyesight , he does like reading sell-by dates on goods in shops . |
| 18 | Like Robert Hardy — and like Hardy , Mitchell is an intelligent , thoughtful and trustworthy man — he has few qualifications about Burton at this stage : Burton would be nineteen , twenty , twenty-one . |
| 19 | The Office is currently considering the establishment of a computer-readable data archive ( CRDA ) , and although it has few answers to the problems facing the world archival community in such matters , I hope that it is in the position to ask some interesting questions . |
| 20 | But even if the Church takes this controversial step , there remains the fact that it has few structures for evaluating its chief resource . |
| 21 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 22 | Because of his betrayal of the Decembrists in 1825 and his long identification with the regime of Nicholas I , he had few friends on the left of the political spectrum who could advise him on the way in which emancipation should proceed . |
| 23 | With such experiences of life it would be no wonder if he had few scruples about how he got what he wanted . |
| 24 | In fact he had few qualifications for great office . |