Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Jones ' family had moved in quietly when Jamie was just nine years old , and she had lived a few doors down the street . |
| 5 | Maybe , she thought bitterly , if she had asked a few questions she might have uncovered the truth about him for herself , instead of having the information relayed to her by one of her friends . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was true that she had gained a few customers lately , Dai Jones , Cleg the Coal 's brother being one of them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 11 | She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant . |
| 12 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |
| 13 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |