Example sentences of "have [verb] a few [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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
10 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
11 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
12 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
15 | Erm what I need to do now is just so I 'm gon na have to cross a few things out . |
16 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
17 | 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 ! ’ |
18 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
19 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
20 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
21 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |
22 | You 'll still have to do a few miles ? |
23 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
24 | At this point , we must admit you do have to press a few buttons to get Delta service . |
25 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
26 | If the table of the guitar has ‘ bellied out ’ you may also have to shave a few millimetres off the bottom of the saddle to achieve a lower playing action . |
27 | The proviso of the key must have raised a few eyebrows . |
28 | Because of the visits to the footplate to see the controls , and also the food cooked traditional style on the shovel , most of the people at the party will have exchanged a few words with Roger and gained an impression of the sort of cheerful , obliging chap he was . |
29 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
30 | The Government could have scored a few points and won some political friends . |