Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a pair " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 2 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 3 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 4 | There 's a poster up in erm , and these two people that are drug addicts , and said like , did you see that I 'd drawn a pair of ears on one of them , turned around and seen Shane and he 's like his mate was the other one , were n't it ? |
| 5 | She thought she 'd married a pair of muscular , sheltering arms and what she 'd got was a snivelling kid still frightened of Mummy . |
| 6 | Imagine Plenty , then , when the Alice Liddell arrived ferrying a pair of cabaret artistes , as a giant paralysed space habitat under makeshift redevelopment . |
| 7 | Craig Melia , 30 , from Stretchley , near Sheffield , admitted stealing a pair of £22.50 jeans from Marks and Spencer in Darlington on March 21 . |
| 8 | For the wild at heart , an entire army of animals captured on film and adapted to become a pair of braces . |
| 9 | The distinction between the two sorts of organisation , one needed to produce a pair of cochleas , the other a pair of corneal stromas , is a deep one . |
| 10 | When he was about 12 he managed to acquire a pair of roller-skates . |
| 11 | I managed to find a pair of school shoes for twenty pounds which is quite cheap compared to some of the other prices . |
| 12 | Cos I thought needs a pair of decent jeans . |
| 13 | Fitzroy Maclean and Bill Cumper , the engineer , managed to obtain a pair of small black inflatables , with the intention that the team would operate them rather than using SBS personnel . |
| 14 | Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile . |
| 15 | GABRIEL DID get a pair of wings made from filigree wire quilted with the tips of peacock feathers . |
| 16 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 17 | When I emerged I had to borrow a pair of chef 's trousers , ’ he admitted . |
| 18 | The former had taken a golf-club to a smooth , level patch of grass a short distance from the house which Philippe Bonard , anxious to cater for his clients ' leisure needs as well as their thirst for learning , had laid out as a green ; she had donned a pair of heavy-framed spectacles and was practising putting . |
| 19 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 20 | Would n't say he had to buy a pair , track bike , he 's make their own up . |
| 21 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 22 | The prosecutor said she had stolen a pair of jeans worth £9.99 from Woolworths in Northgate . |
| 23 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 24 | Apart from the evidence of bloodstained items such as the fender , the flat iron and the shoes , the Surrey Police had retrieved a pair of Shill 's bloodstained trousers from John Turner 's house . |
| 25 | Someone had sent a pair of floral dancing shoes . |
| 26 | With it , she had chosen a pair of black sneakers and a huge black bracelet . |
| 27 | He slid the car into gear and edged out on to the main road , waiting until he had overtaken a pair of cyclists before replying . |
| 28 | Got a got a pair of twos there ee by heck ! for four and a pair is six well I think I 'll have I 'm afraid two eights , two o , two eights , two tens and then nine did n't ask for that but I had to throw a pair of twos away for that and go in there you go . |
| 29 | They had never had an argument , apart from one occasion in 1956 , when Henry refused to wear a pair of short trousers . |