Example sentences of "he had a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He had a few hours anyway . |
2 | The police would have to be told about Zoe 's murder tomorrow , but tonight he had a few hours of peace . |
3 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |
4 | Midway through 1906–07 Archie was deployed at right-back in the Palace line-ups , although he had a few outings on the right wing , and he played throughout our fabulous progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals . |
5 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
6 | He had a few contacts in the Metropolitan force . |
7 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
8 | He had a few enemies amongst the more militant dockers but he had many loyal friends too , and many had told Carrie that they would follow him without question . |
9 | He had a few minutes yet , to compose his missive to Estabrook . |
10 | Every year , he had a few sessions with a visiting American analyst and there were occasional visits to a local one . |
11 | He had a few weeks to bask in the glow of this last electoral achievement , weeks that were only a little marred by the unpleasantness of Cabinet changes and the difficulties of moving towards a decision on the application of the oil sanction against Italy . |
12 | He had a few drinks and fell asleep and when he woke up he was in bed and Beryl was lying beside him . |
13 | He said he had a few days ’ work for me , five hundred and expenses . |
14 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
15 | Afterwards he had a few words with Hob 's wife , the children cowering around her . |
16 | He had a few convictions for petty crimes when he was out of work but had got away with fines in the past . |
17 | He had a few animals , got a small catch-crop of grain , but probably lived mostly off government pensions , grants and subsidies to agriculture . |