Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 2 | One of them fell over a coffee table and threw a whole trayful of bits and pieces on Carrie Donovan and Harry Pritchett . |
| 3 | They got out a bag containing balloons and presents for Harry 's birthday bash , which will be held without his parents . |
| 4 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 5 | They wiped out a village . |
| 6 | They fought over a girl , I understand . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had enough ! ’ he screamed as they fought over a table . |
| 8 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 9 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 10 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 12 | He shrugged , feeding the steering-wheel expertly through his hands as they roared round a corner . |
| 13 | They drove round a corner and the next thing they heard was gunfire . |
| 14 | As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor . |
| 15 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 16 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 17 | They messed up a baton change and failed to finish , creeping from the track with the ribald comments of the crowd in their ears ! |
| 18 | She listened for Patrick 's cry but the only noise was from the Kenny children as they squabbled over a piece of bread , and Maggie was sitting on the bed with the baby sucking in vain at her scrawny breast . |
| 19 | Then they burned down a factory and forty-nine other houses . |
| 20 | ‘ They burned down a cottage just the other day . |
| 21 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 22 | At one point , laughing , they fired off a couple of rounds , ricocheting the bullets against a wall . |
| 23 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 24 | They opened up a market of huge potential for English manufacturers in the New World . |
| 25 | They opened up a lead of more than two minutes by Huddersfield , but were caught with just under 30 miles left . |
| 26 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 27 | The two girls died when the car ploughed into them from behind as they skipped along a pavement . |
| 28 | SEXY Joe Cain and Michelle Cleaver were n't hiding too much in London 's Hyde Park yesterday as they showed off a range of new sexy outfits . |
| 29 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 30 | The jail breakers , all remand prisoners , were among 80 prisoners being supervised by 2 officers in the exercise yard of Gloucester Prison when they escaped over a perimeter wall using a rope made of bedsheets . |