Example sentences of "they have [verb] 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 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 7 | They 've announced a new sports car to be built at Cowley and they launch a new model in April . |
| 8 | Well I mean I ca n't say enough for the people in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary , I mean they 've got a great burns unit there and I mean er er I think the plastic surgeons and what knot are about they must be some of the best in the world . |
| 9 | So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry . |
| 10 | Yeah , they got , they 've got a massive Bugs Bunny sitting up over the sweet counter as you go in |
| 11 | Cos they 're walking through the area and they 'll if they 've had a few pints , Let's go down Oh we 'll walk through Flats and we 'll smash one or two lights up , smash one or two windows . |
| 12 | If they 've had a few beers , they m they may leave something else behind . |
| 13 | They had to do a hundred yards in combat kit . |
| 14 | They had constructed a new personnel file . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once they have pasted a few posters in a Punjabi town , the instruction on them becomes law . |
| 19 | As yet unsigned , they have played a few gigs but are still in the process of ‘ refining ’ the music . |
| 20 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
| 21 | Indeed they have suggested a few areas where the pattern recogniser seems quite weak . |
| 22 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 23 | Others may experience a light-headed sensation as if they have had a few glasses of wine ; a few fall into a deep sleep ! |
| 24 | Some fellows , when they have had a few drinks , and are in the presence of an attractive woman , are prone to talk too much . |