Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 2 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 3 | They had played quite a bit at Hurlingham when they had first been married . |
| 4 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 5 | Yesterday the administrators of Maxwell 's private estate , estimated to be worth £8 million , revealed they had recovered only a quarter of that amount . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | showed no stuttering , and the usual blood flow asymmetry favouring the left side , when they had to read aloud a passage of prose . |
| 8 | When he approached a group of well-known writers , they refused to buy even a drawing . |
| 9 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |