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 | They had played quite a bit at Hurlingham when they had first been married . |
| 3 | Yesterday the administrators of Maxwell 's private estate , estimated to be worth £8 million , revealed they had recovered only a quarter of that amount . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |