Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 2 | As soon as he had completed a few successful assignments , word was passed around and more business came his way . |
| 3 | I had heard a few comments , such as : ‘ Oh ! |
| 4 | Lugh had heard a few extremely surprising tales about Her Majesty and Fergus , but he had not gossiped , because Longhands did not gossip . |
| 5 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 6 | Erm there 's another one that a lot of came up with one or two had heard a few before and they all groaned and then accused you of making them all up ! |
| 7 | The man 's foot had broken a few spokes and the chain had come off , but there was no other damage . |
| 8 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 9 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 10 | He said McPherson had stopped a few hundred yards on , gone to the boot of his car , returned and suggested they go back to Tarbert . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One English girl had fallen a few yards behind her companions and , as thirty spectators looked on , lost her daysack , with its camera , cash and diary , in a tug-of-war with the thief . |
| 13 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
| 14 | Here and there the doctor had added a few words . |
| 15 | Instead , after I had anointed a few of the more important Poles with precious substances , I built a dam system . |
| 16 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 17 | The ground either end of the bridge had dropped a few inches . |
| 18 | It was not completely unknown because my father had let a few art lovers see it , and , later on , some researchers into Modigliani . |
| 19 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 20 | Joe 's father had worked for her father , and Joe himself had earned a few shillings helping out , when he was a scrawny boy with a runny nose . |
| 21 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 22 | The pension had attracted a few more guests than Herr Zimmerman 's complaints had given him to expect . |
| 23 | To Fokine , Les Sylphides was mimed dance because he had incorporated a few conventional gestures into his choreography . |
| 24 | On Boxing Day I had accepted a few spoons of gravy , but only after considerable coaxing from Mick , having refused it twice already . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had met a few he had liked , but they all had lacked something , he thought ; some mysterious quality which Miriam Durkin alone possessed . |
| 27 | She was one of the hardest toms he had ever met in his life , and he had met a few , but she had one vice : she was a dyke and liked the young girls . |
| 28 | They were two of the biggest lunatics he had ever met , and he had met a few in his time . |
| 29 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 30 | I realized I had seen a few of these same processions on my way north through eastern Czechoslovakia , in Ovitkov and in Ostrava . |