Example sentences of "have a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ We 've had a few jobs recently where husbands have given their wives surprise parties in the stables or somewhere . |
4 | but I 've had a few years out |
5 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
6 | ‘ I 've had a few numbers on . ’ |
7 | ‘ I will have a few casts here , Blair , then follow you down to the next pool , ’ I suggested . |
8 | Later on they might have a few minutes together and he would hold her and she would become herself again . |
9 | So there 's no reason at all why you should n't have a few hours off . |
10 | He thinks perhaps I might have a few days away from here . |
11 | Just say , ‘ I 'm having a few friends round to dinner . |
12 | I 'm having a few friends in on Saturday evening , along with some new acquaintances , and I 'd like you all to come . ’ |
13 | I have to say Chairman that I find that the suggested resolution of six is totally adequate to deal with and I , I have read er the motion proposed by through a couple of times , and you know , it 's having a few frills here and there and some are , I , I , I find this one thing er more than adequate er to deal with the situation and er I would move that resolution formally . |
14 | It 's nice in the studio to have a few things here and there , but live , that 's what it hangs on . ’ |
15 | I used to cut them all up and they used to leave me the legs , you know , the hams and the backs and they used to have a few joints off and take home and then the rest I used to lay it , put it into bacon down the cellar . |
16 | I liked to have a few days out in Middlesbrough , Sunderland or Newcastle but now I ca n't do this anymore and I 'm stuck in Hartlepool . ’ |
17 | ‘ It 's always a good idea to have a few castles up there . |
18 | Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there . |
19 | ‘ He only got his chance because we had a few players out with flu . |
20 | Gloucester had a few players out as well . |
21 | The the guy ca n't get that cos I had a few shillings more after working two years . |
22 | He had a few hours anyway . |
23 | He had a few minutes yet , to compose his missive to Estabrook . |
24 | maybe she 's got a bug or something , that 's what I had a few weeks ago remember , mm , mm , oh and then to cap it all |
25 | We had a few drinks together , chatted . |
26 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
27 | Holomisa had a few days earlier claimed to have knowledge of a planned coup attempt against him , stating that members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) were involved in guerrilla training on South African territory near the Transkei border . |
28 | He said that Microsoft would like to have the dominant position in the industry that IBM had a few years ago ‘ but I do n't think that will happen ’ . |
29 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
30 | They have a few artists now and then . ’ |