Example sentences of "he had [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 2 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 3 | He had met a few he had liked , but they all had lacked something , he thought ; some mysterious quality which Miriam Durkin alone possessed . |
| 4 | She was one of the hardest toms he had ever met in his life , and he had met a few , but she had one vice : she was a dyke and liked the young girls . |
| 5 | They were two of the biggest lunatics he had ever met , and he had met a few in his time . |
| 6 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 7 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 8 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 9 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 10 | Oh , he had greased a few of the Old Bill 's palms over the years , such as the Chief Constable 's , but they were both in the Masons . |
| 11 | Presumably he had snatched a few more hours ' sleep , she decided morosely , while she 'd been traipsing fruitlessly up and down Strøget . |
| 12 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 13 | As soon as he had completed a few successful assignments , word was passed around and more business came his way . |
| 14 | To Fokine , Les Sylphides was mimed dance because he had incorporated a few conventional gestures into his choreography . |
| 15 | There was melancholy in all his remembrances , hardly a gleam of satisfaction , even though he had ridden a few unexpected winners in his time . |
| 16 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 17 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 18 | He had had a few more prophetic dreams . |
| 19 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |
| 20 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 21 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 22 | After spending the evening lambing , he had driven a few hundred yards to the copse from his home nearby at New Manor Farm , Winterslow , Wilts , where he lived with his Australian-born wife , Lavinia , 39 , seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter . |
| 23 | On the other hand , Lindsey found herself thinking , if Niall smiled at her the way he had smiled a few minutes ago , the dear lady probably would n't even need an anaesthetic ! |
| 24 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |