Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] [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 tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 6 | They had constructed a new personnel file . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 9 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |