Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] they [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland was well endowed with its own gangsters in the '60s , but local sociology ensured that most of them never became famous , unless of course they spent a lifetime suffering in brutal prison cells and re-emerged as award-winning sculptors . |
| 2 | Of course they had a problem at the outset that being all the powers had agreed on the need for joint intervention say er vis a vis France . |
| 3 | of course they had a problem had n't they ? |
| 4 | Now whether it was n near grave 's quay or wherever it was , they had a a quay there and of course they had a quay in . |
| 5 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 6 | The service standards could have been just circulated internally , but making them public meant everyone would know what level of service they had a right to expect from the police . |
| 7 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 8 | Near Fontanellato they had a cousin who owned a caseificio and had promised to give them some butter and cheese . |
| 9 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 10 | When they had last been extensively used , in 1894 and 1895 , able-bodied paupers in Bermondsey terrified the workhouse staff and played leapfrog in the stoneyard ; in Poplar they formed a union and went on strike for a higher rate of relief . |
| 11 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 12 | Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left hand track which led around the northern edge of the depression . |
| 13 | In algebra they developed a concept of polynomials and pioneered an algebraic geometry that has traditionally been ascribed to Descartes . |
| 14 | As she screamed in pain they stole a necklace she was wearing . |
| 15 | After calling for a return to work they organised a series of campaigns , about censorship , the campaign for the eight hour working day . |
| 16 | And you say in in in this class , this is when you first went to school they had a sandpit , this was for playing in ? |
| 17 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 18 | They stopped it see , so I did n't gain anything out of it , me mates at work they made a collection for me in their way . |
| 19 | At midnight they drank a toast to the New Year , joined hands to sing Auld Lang Syne and then returned to their cells . |
| 20 | ‘ By mid-afternoon they had a television camera cemented in front of your flats . |