Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 2 | After a few moments she had relaxed fully , her apprehension shrivelled by the atmosphere of friendliness and laughter . |
| 3 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 4 | For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed . |
| 5 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |
| 6 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 7 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 8 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 9 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
| 10 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 11 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 12 | After a few minutes he had spoken again . |
| 13 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 14 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 15 | Within a few minutes it has to return to wet its skin and take a fresh mouthful of water . |
| 16 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 17 | Right , now there 's a few questions I 've got ta ask you |
| 18 | ‘ It 's my first race so there 's a few things I 've got to work on , ’ Mansell said . |
| 19 | ‘ And I suppose there are quite a few things I have n't done . |
| 20 | Just a few things she has to do . ’ |
| 21 | No one can deny that thanks to Champollion and a few others we have succeeded in reading Egyptian hieroglyphics and that we know , in most cases , what they mean . |
| 22 | He delivered the letter , together with a few flowers he 'd nicked from a cemetery . |
| 23 | He would imagine the dead bodies of some pop stars he had admired , his mother , and a few pets he had owned as a boy . |
| 24 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 25 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
| 26 | Within a few days she had resolved to flee the country — her husband would not leave his business — and to join her parents , who had settled in London in 1936 . |
| 27 | Within a few days she had recovered enough to play practice chukkas , going straight into fast polo as though she 'd played it all her life . |
| 28 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 29 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 30 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |