Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they 've got a short concentration . |
| 2 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 3 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 4 | As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day . |
| 5 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 8 | They 'd reached a dramatic opening , and through it she could see the moon-silvered sea hundreds of feet below , moving in a slow , deep swell towards the foot of the cliffs . |
| 9 | They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories . |
| 10 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 11 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 12 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 13 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 14 | Because when Wendy and Laura had returned they 'd brought a verbal message from Suzie to the effect that she 'd met a Danish boy and had no intention of returning to England to complete her studies . |
| 15 | Cos they 'd brought a little dog to be walked . |
| 16 | ‘ And they 'd learnt a fair bit in the war , with their OSS Office of Strategic Services , same as our SOE . |
| 17 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 18 | men when they 'd retrieved a live person , or even a dead one . |
| 19 | T. B. Bloody pest was stray animals , stray dogs — people would come up and say they 'd found a stray , and you 'd have to take it off them , take their name and address . |
| 20 | Surely , after the wonderful night of passion she had experienced with Ross , they 'd had a real chance of mending their relationship ? |
| 21 | I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car . |
| 22 | They 'd had a long , hard , cold morning 's work and levity took over . |
| 23 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 24 | That 's what I said first , I said ooh they 'd had a terrible job ! |
| 25 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 26 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 27 | Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit . |
| 28 | that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ? |
| 29 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 30 | They 'd had a huge fork lift truck on the roof where they stored materials . |