Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They scarcely spoke a word of English . |
| 32 | They finally reached a door which opened into the courtyard at the rear of the building . |
| 33 | After spending five days trying to work out what to tell the world about the changing of the match ball by the referee at lunch on Sunday , they finally issued a statement — which said nothing . |
| 34 | Edgar knew his destination and they soon got a taxi . |
| 35 | At least they still had a phone . |
| 36 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 37 | Only today they still had a copy . |
| 38 | Polly had total faith in Nathan 's seamanship , but they still had a lot of ocean to cross , and the radio was a source of vital information regarding sea and weather conditions . |
| 39 | But they still had a lot of ground to make up . |
| 40 | While heterosexual feminists recognized rape as an important issue , they still had an investment in men , which to some extent meant not upsetting those men too much . |
| 41 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 42 | They fitted but they still looked a bit baggy . |
| 43 | Lucien grudgingly had to admit that they were first-class vibrancers , but to him they still seemed an insult to the art . |
| 44 | Last year they still commanded a majority — 54 per cent . |
| 45 | Yet they still ate an average of 400 calories a day less than usual . |
| 46 | In an interview on Danish radio , the former liberal minister of finance said that , although the proposals in their current form had ‘ improved a lot ’ since the commission started discussing Mr MacSharry 's plan three months ago , they still presented a danger of destroying farming as a professionally run industry . |
| 47 | Nevertheless they still wanted a worker who could communicate with the young and relate to them . |
| 48 | Although they still did an average of three shows a night , after their stint in Paris this was easy . |
| 49 | Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind . |
| 50 | They hardly exchanged a word . |
| 51 | They hardly spoke a word until they had collected their horses and left the Tower , going up towards Eastcheap . |
| 52 | Its classical central waiting-room had a touch of the first Euston about it , eighty years removed , and South Australian railways were so proud of it that they promptly published a booklet providing statistics of its dimensions , quantities of building materials used , and so on . |
| 53 | They always chose an aisle seat so that Sweetheart could slip away to talk to her friends without disturbing anyone . |
| 54 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 55 | And er Liverpool people were very good , very kind , they always had a meal for me things if they could . |
| 56 | And I remember when I was a nipper , er er being up there and they had , they always had a box in the back of their caravan where they kept two or three hens , and , and , and er they used to have this game bird . |
| 57 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 58 | They always had an argument at the end of their act . |
| 59 | the clearing up , they always gave a hand , but even so , they , they did n't realise that the three weeks before hand |
| 60 | Oil ministers from the OPEC countries met in Geneva on July 26-27 where they quickly reached an agreement on oil production and pricing . |