Example sentences of "they [vb past] had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , after the wonderful night of passion she had experienced with Ross , they 'd had a real chance of mending their relationship ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 'd had a long , hard , cold morning 's work and levity took over . |
| 4 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 5 | That 's what I said first , I said ooh they 'd had a terrible job ! |
| 6 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 7 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 8 | Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit . |
| 9 | that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ? |
| 10 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 11 | They 'd had a huge fork lift truck on the roof where they stored materials . |
| 12 | They 'd had a wonderful afternoon . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel women are pushed out of hospital , just as if they 'd had a minor operation , or a very mild illness . ’ |
| 14 | 2 crew were killed and many locals felt they 'd had a lucky escape . |
| 15 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 16 | He signalled to the waiter ; during the brief ceremony of settling the bill , handing over a tip and saying yes thank you they 'd had a lovely evening and enjoyed their meal , his avoidance of her eye was constant and deliberate . |
| 17 | But they 'd had a little drink in Germany , and did n't know where to head ! |
| 18 | Even if they 'd had a formal partnership , which they did n't , it would have made no difference . |
| 19 | They had had a pleasant walk and an easy supper . |
| 20 | Although they had no single rooms left , they said finally , they had had a late cancellation of a suite . |
| 21 | But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms . |
| 22 | She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners . |
| 23 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 24 | He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home . |
| 25 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |
| 26 | They had had a big Sunday lunch , with Mum and Dad being there . |
| 27 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 28 | Dmitri agreed with her , and they had had a passionate argument last night with Marchak , who drove racing cars , and Frolovna , who had loved a matador for two weeks in Spain . |
| 29 | Similarly , Zuwaya claimed that they had had a Turkish licence — an exclusive licence , no less — to conduct traders and travellers who wished to cross the desert from Benghazi to Black Africa . |
| 30 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |