Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 2 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 3 | They had played quite a bit at Hurlingham when they had first been married . |
| 4 | They had worked out a system . |
| 5 | They had worked out a rota to stand guard on their remaining property , and also to protect their terrified daughters . |
| 6 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 7 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 8 | Yesterday the administrators of Maxwell 's private estate , estimated to be worth £8 million , revealed they had recovered only a quarter of that amount . |
| 9 | I also sent a 6-page questionnaire to people who attended Unification ‘ workshops ’ — the majority of whom did not join the movement , although they had learned quite a lot about it . |
| 10 | They had drawn up a memorandum agreeing to a National Government led by MacDonald ; it would dedicate itself to economies of 70 million , including a cut of ten per cent in the dole . |
| 11 | Once a people had been colonialist , the working class would continue to be colonialist even after they had carried out a revolution . |
| 12 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |