Example sentences of "have [vb pp] 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 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think she may even have said a few words to it . |
| 8 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 9 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 10 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 13 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 16 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 17 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 18 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
| 20 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 21 | The proviso of the key must have raised a few eyebrows . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Government could have scored a few points and won some political friends . |
| 25 | You must surely have observed a few things about Fräulein Müller . ’ |
| 26 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There was no loss to the stores but it could have caused a few problems . ’ |
| 28 | It will also have learned a few lessons in how not to go about setting up a business . |
| 29 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 30 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |