Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 2 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 3 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 4 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 5 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 6 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 7 | Death-beds are not easily mistaken and Mrs Hellyer had sat beside a few . |
| 8 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
| 9 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 10 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 11 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 12 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 13 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 14 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 15 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 16 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 17 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 18 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 19 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 20 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 21 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 22 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 23 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 24 | Jenny had gone without a few things in her youth and was determined that their boy would lack nothing . |
| 25 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 26 | Monica made her comment to Tweed when Buchanan and Warden had left after a few more minutes ' conversation . |
| 27 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 28 | He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them . |
| 29 | She had passed through a few rooms . |
| 30 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |