Example sentences of "[prep] they had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed most of them had made a kind of negative progress . |
| 2 | On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin 's wedding . |
| 3 | Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it . |
| 4 | If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again . |
| 5 | The men used matches to see around , one of them had lit a straw bail to get more light . |
| 6 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 7 | Neither of them had spoken a word since leaving London . |
| 8 | Senior Household officials like the Treasurer of the Chamber , the Chamberlain , the Vice Chamberlain , the Captain of the Guard , the Controller of the Household , and the Treasurer of the Household evidently held their posts under the Tudors without a patent and at the pleasure of the monarch , although by the reign of Charles I many of them had acquired a life interest . |
| 9 | But the two of them had had a falling-out on the night of the capitalization party . |
| 10 | Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting . |