Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 2 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 3 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 4 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 5 | It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public . |
| 6 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 7 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 8 | Right , and that , that 's obviously a , an and if you look at it , it 's it 's got a few less squiggles than that one , but it 's a , it 's a version of . |
| 9 | It 's got a few you 've got the |
| 10 | Yeah I like that , I like the sound of that one , but it 's got a few big words in it |
| 11 | there are bound to be occasions and er it 's happened a few occasions during my political life , where you do er find agreement with people of of various parties . |