Example sentences of "have [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 |
| 33 | Frankly , she looked as if she 'd got a few bundles of twelve-page letters stuffed up her woolly even now . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | She did n't correct enough or she lost control or maybe she 'd had a few bevvies . |
| 36 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 37 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 38 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 39 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 47 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 48 | He said he 'd played a few years before but was very out of practice |
| 49 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 50 | Maybe if you 'd spared a few minutes , you could 've become part of Gillian Wearing 's extensive collection of personalised banners . |
| 51 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 52 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 53 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking . |
| 56 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 59 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 60 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |