Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 2 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 3 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
| 4 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 5 | We would have to meet the same conditions — no more , no less . |
| 6 | Local tradition may indicate where cottages stood until recently , but the fieldworker should be aware that much earlier structures may also have occupied the same sites . |
| 7 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 8 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 9 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 10 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 11 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
| 12 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 13 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 14 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 15 | The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt . |
| 16 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 17 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 18 | Erm what I need to do now is just so I 'm gon na have to cross a few things out . |
| 19 | In other words , ambitious Labour politicians will have to apply the same skills that win national elections to internal party contests . |
| 20 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 21 | She would have had no such hopes in the old days , when Bill took pleasure in flouting normal expectations , seemed driven to flare up , to " create " as Mrs Orton might put it . |
| 22 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 23 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 24 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 25 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 26 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |
| 27 | You 'll still have to do a few miles ? |
| 28 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
| 30 | At this point , we must admit you do have to press a few buttons to get Delta service . |