Example sentences of "had [verb] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 3 | I had heard a few comments , such as : ‘ Oh ! |
| 4 | The man 's foot had broken a few spokes and the chain had come off , but there was no other damage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 7 | He had never been to a theatre in London , but he knew now , after the performance she had given a few minutes ago , that Mother Bombie was the greatest actress in the world . |
| 8 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
| 9 | One English girl had fallen a few yards behind her companions and , as thirty spectators looked on , lost her daysack , with its camera , cash and diary , in a tug-of-war with the thief . |
| 10 | Here and there the doctor had added a few words . |
| 11 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 12 | The ground either end of the bridge had dropped a few inches . |
| 13 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 14 | Joe 's father had worked for her father , and Joe himself had earned a few shillings helping out , when he was a scrawny boy with a runny nose . |
| 15 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 16 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 17 | On Boxing Day I had accepted a few spoons of gravy , but only after considerable coaxing from Mick , having refused it twice already . |
| 18 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 19 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 20 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 21 | IBM had made a few changes ( very small ) and entitled it PCDOS ( because it ran their PCs , strangely enough ! ) |
| 22 | Now , for a second great war , she found herself in a country which was not her own ; although she had made a few friends , it was not at all like living among her own people . |
| 23 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 24 | Only once the others had become used to her , once she had made a few allies , would she risk stirring up so sensitive a subject . |
| 25 | None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon . |
| 26 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 27 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 28 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 29 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |
| 30 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |