Example sentences of "they had [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 2 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 3 | Up to 50 per cent of people with heart disease or cancer could probably have prevented or delayed the onset of their illness if they had eaten a better diet or stopped smoking . |
| 4 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 5 | He worried persistently about the poverty of his social life and bitterly complained : By June 1949 they had reached a further stage in their relationship . |
| 6 | Rangers , incidentally , are to issue every supporter travelling to Belgium with the club next week a booklet outlining the need for good behaviour in order to avoid an incident of the type in France which recently cost FC Brugge a UEFA imposed fine of £118,000 after they had reversed an earlier decision to have the match with Rangers played behind closed doors . |