Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 2 | When the grunge gets too much , at least 1992 's relentless targeting of the American underground has flushed out a few dissonant rumbles . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Colin was a terrific help once we 'd thrashed out a few problems , ’ she said modestly . |
| 4 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 5 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 6 | the P.N.M. would have to sort out a few more issues of contention ; a Federated West Indies for instance ; constitutional reform ; should they let the U.S. retain its naval base at Chaguaramas ? and , are we a socialist movement ? |
| 7 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 8 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 10 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 11 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 12 | We 've picked out a few of the very best places and entertainments for our trips programme to give you a taste of one of the most attractive areas in Spain . |
| 13 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |
| 14 | Credit must be given to the home keeper Alan Godden who had to pull off a few good saves . |
| 15 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 16 | The car , however , had picked up a few more dents , and none of the windows existed any longer . |
| 17 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 18 | Oxford manager Brian Horton had drawn up a few special plans for Villa one of them was this free kick which hit the post . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 20 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 21 | I 've pulled out a few press cuttings as well whilst I was looking through some of the for this talk . |
| 22 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 23 | She had to lift up a few loose strands from her neck when Lowell fastened the beads . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 25 | When he had wolfed down a few chapattis and an onion bhaji , Amiss took a slurp of lager and then leaned back . |
| 26 | After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers . |
| 27 | She had cleared up a few worrying points about William Egan . |
| 28 | We have carried out a few water changes , but our water is still dark green . |
| 29 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 30 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |