Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 2 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 3 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 4 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 5 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |