Example sentences of "had [art] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia did note that Ven had a few pleasant words with the hard-working lady before she , smiling , left the room . |
| 2 | You could say I had a few choice words with him . ’ |
| 3 | But we had a few other cards up our sleeves we were waiting to play : we 'd brought two furry friends along with us . |
| 4 | West Ham had a few good shots ( bar & post ) . |
| 5 | He supposed now , trying to look at himself dispassionately , he still had a few good points — but he was old , old , old , he told himself sternly . |
| 6 | Actually , she could probably have married him and had a few nice babies with his laughing blue eyes , his loony hippy fluffy hair , and maybe her eyebrows . |
| 7 | I only had a few wee tablets that pump the vein |
| 8 | She had a few tawdry memories — and the constant presence of the woman who wanted to be his wife to deal with . |
| 9 | I had a few casual relationships after I left the Sorbonne . |
| 10 | ‘ I noticed he had a few extra bits and pieces on . |
| 11 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 12 | When she finished , Nick had a few muttered words with his colleagues before asking her one or two questions , mostly concerning times , places and names . |
| 13 | With Buttons and the Mice cheering Cinders with Rock Around the Clock , the Ugly Sisters appearing to the strains of Walk Like a Man , the Prince as a look-alike of pop star Prince , a decorated Reebok glass slipper and a Thunderbird 4 coach , the script-writing team Foxanpelico Ltd. , had a few novel ideas to entertain young and old . |
| 14 | We had a few broken windows , ’ he says . |
| 15 | We had a few concluding words about the literary scene in London , which he thought to have reached a pretty low ebb . |
| 16 | He went and I had a few miserable weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ I had a few sleepless nights , ’ confessed Hodkinson , whose draw , which he later avenged , came against Thomas Arguelles two years ago . |
| 18 | I had a few nagging associations , a snatch of a song ( ‘ Beautiful Dreamer ’ ) , a girl 's name ( Lissa ) , and a big white room like hospital ward . |
| 19 | In the case of the tms and citB promoters , however , stable complexes were not detected until the nascent RNA had a few more nucleotides ( 11 ) . |
| 20 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 21 | She had a few more minutes . |
| 22 | We asked if she was getting tired of being subjected to all these questions , and she said that she had a few more minutes before she had to go and meet Jack and Rod for lunch . |
| 23 | ‘ Mayhap if we had a few more wizards among us we would not now be in the straits we are in . ’ |
| 24 | As we reached the island pool , I suggested Blair had a few more casts before finishing . |
| 25 | In pursuit of land reform , in a country without large inequalities in ownership , party militants shot any old man they could find who had a few more acres than the rest , or whose social position , as arbiter of disputes , set him apart from others . |
| 26 | One hopes that Wyton , being a pre-war station , had a few more amenities than Bourn , which apparently had only recently been caved out of the mud . |
| 27 | Both teams had a few short corners which came to nothing . |
| 28 | Most of my school mates were black , though I had a few white ones . |
| 29 | She said she had a few hair-raising experiences , mainly from people who have had too much to drink . |
| 30 | The balance of power must have shifted between them , because he had a few glittering moments of objectivity about her as well as the old nuzzling gratitude of some broken-kneed dray horse . |