Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The feminists had marched in thousands when David Laing MP , in his maiden speech , urged married women to give up their jobs because ‘ there is so much to do at home ’ ; they sabotaged a cricket pitch ( cricket being ‘ male idleness elevated into a religion ’ ) etching into the grass with acid their crudest symbol : a round-cornered diamond to represent a vulva , with a large clitoris and no opening . |
2 | They inserted a truncheon into his anus . |
3 | The weavers valued them more highly , however , and responded with a fourteen-week strike during which they inserted a notice in the Ipswich Journal . |
4 | They lacked a dimension , |
5 | Are many of our women politicians the little girls who refused to recognise the unwelcome fact that they lacked a penis and , defiantly rebellious , exaggerated their masculinity … ? |
6 | Great passing ; good running , but they lacked a knockout punch . |
7 | Rank had funded his forays into production on the back of profits accruing from the exhibition of US pictures but , instead of standing firm with the American companies when they announced a boycott of British screens , he decided to boost his own company 's production . |
8 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
9 | They owned a circus tent with its own seating and turned their hands to most of the acts , but have not been able to pay debts estimated at £60,000 or more . |
10 | The Tallentires were staunch Chapel folk even though they owned a pub . |
11 | They owned a freehold tenement that stood close to the north door of the church and another small tenement in Houlston township , which they normally let to tenants . |
12 | Yeah , it was erm you did n't have to go that far out but they ha they owned a bit of land and stuff |
13 | As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor . |
14 | And as they met a passion exploded between them ; a hunger that terrified Folly with its intensity . |
15 | Half way along they met a woman . |
16 | But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road . |
17 | En route they met a number of people they knew , hearing their stories and telling their own . |
18 | Proposals , submitted through the Co-ordinator , would have to be assessed by the Group to ensure that they met a number of criteria . |
19 | When coalition ministers began to bring forward legislation in 1919 they met a hail of criticism , from Liberals hostile to decontrol and Unionists lukewarm on social reconstruction . |
20 | they expected , they expected a lot of er applications . |
21 | And they expected a lot of but they did n't expect that many . |
22 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
23 | After they married they got a council flat on the second floor overlooking a main road . |
24 | Christy O'Connor Jnr played on the second morning and Jose Maria Canizares in the afternoon and although they did n't give me any points I felt it was important that they got a chance to taste the atmosphere and feel a part of the proceedings , as I thought that it would help them going into the singles . |
25 | Well they got a grant you see . |
26 | I do n't recall if they got a conviction for Arnie . |
27 | And they got a stockbroker , someone who used to be a stockbroker , actually managing the whole practice . |
28 | That 's how they got a man on the moon ! |
29 | So I made a roster out for the ro for the supervisors which meant that every week they got a rest day . |
30 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |