Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curator of Edinburgh zoo has proposed adding a few specimens to the zoo collection . |
| 2 | Conservation thinking has begun to grasp a few of the same nettles . |
| 3 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 4 | At Edward 's death his heir was aged twelve and the king would only have needed to live a few more years to have handed power to an adult heir . |
| 5 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 6 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 7 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 8 | You 'll have to start doing a few jobs for me next week . |
| 9 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 10 | We 'll have to have to get a few of these in Radio Orkney I can see . |
| 11 | Its cochlea , that vital , snail-shaped organ in the inner ear , will have started to degenerate a few days after birth , and the deterioration is completely irreversible . |
| 12 | He would have liked to exchange a few words with Cedric Downes at Oxford — surely a man suffering from the same kind of trouble ? |
| 13 | She was no Harriet-Meredith would n't have minded betting a few men bought her champagne . |
| 14 | So many of you have written in and asked for help with this game , I 've decided to print a few more hints ( thanks go to Richard Lupton , Mark Latham and Ewen Nicholson for this stuff ) . |
| 15 | The harvest I had seen gathered a few kilometres away was back on the stalk . |
| 16 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 17 | If that means that I 've got to upset a few people because I 'm trying to prevent somebody 's life being lost then I will upset those people . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got to lay a few more bets , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Anyway , I 'll I 'll put in the note anyway , because that 's the , thank you because I , I feel I 've got to get a few prices to find out |
| 20 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 21 | In fact , as I recall , I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves . |
| 22 | This had become an automatic response to most of his wife 's suggestions , and Scarlet had learned to have a few answers ready . |
| 23 | And they 've started to get a few things together have n't they ? |
| 24 | After the disastrous moorland fire , it had taken Jonadab a few years to overcome the loss of both stock and crops . |
| 25 | In the early days , I had tried to make a few suggestions about what the FO could be doing . |
| 26 | But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together . |
| 27 | erm then we 've got some more erm here in this position and some more down here and in fact , I think that we 've managed to squeeze a few more into erm , this position for the bungalow refurbishment , that 's obviously an aside it 's not part of erm what , what Moat are proposing . |
| 28 | However , she had managed to have a few brief words with Morrison and questioned him about Nigel 's movements over the weekend of his father 's death . |
| 29 | While she had been in the shower the bedroom door had drifted open a few more inches , and if Carson were to cross the lounge on the far side of the hallway he 'd probably be able to see her ; but there was still something wrong , and it was obvious that an analysis of her appearance would be pointless . |
| 30 | The local battalion have rung to give a few more details of the incident . |