Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He said he 'd played a few years before but was very out of practice |
| 3 | I think he 'd done a few Compact 's up to then , but he was marvellous . |
| 4 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 5 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 10 | Dad was a jolly chap sober , or could be , but when he 'd had a few he thought himself a bit of a lady-killer . |
| 11 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 12 | Well , he 'd had a few — I mean , he probably should n't have said what he did . |
| 13 | ‘ I said he 'd had a few . |
| 14 | If you 'd heard him talk about her when he 'd had a few you 'd think different . |
| 15 | Usually when he 'd had a few . |
| 16 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 17 | I 'm sure he 'd got a few more bits of paper on his desk than what shall we do about P E Ps ? |
| 18 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 21 | He had met a few he had liked , but they all had lacked something , he thought ; some mysterious quality which Miriam Durkin alone possessed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were two of the biggest lunatics he had ever met , and he had met a few in his time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 26 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Presumably he had snatched a few more hours ' sleep , she decided morosely , while she 'd been traipsing fruitlessly up and down Strøget . |
| 30 | 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 . |