Example sentences of "[adv] they had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 2 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 3 | Somehow they had kept a fire smouldering here . |
| 4 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 5 | Plainly they had interrupted a mourning tea party . |
| 6 | Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’ |
| 7 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 8 | The bruises on the neck and face and legs of the widow and her children were still livid on the brown skin as they recounted how they had run a gauntlet of fists and kicks and curses of their neighbours . |
| 9 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , on reaching the spot where they had seen a person loitering , there was no one to be seen . |
| 11 | Fumbling with a collection of tapes which were jumbled around the gear lever , he called out to the boys behind to ask where they had put a tape of a classic poem set to music . |
| 12 | Firewomen Emerton , Simpson , Smart and Turner — telephonists from Farnham Fire Station — returned from a ten week course near Reading where they had won a cup after competitions with several other fire service teams . |