Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [noun] " 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 | So today they announced a £10,000 reward offered in tandem with the Community Action Trust . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They announced a 10% concessionary tax rate to approved art and antique dealers on income derived from transactions on behalf of non-residents with approved auction houses . |
| 10 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Tallentires were staunch Chapel folk even though they owned a pub . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Together they owned a fish shop called Levy 's Provisions and Fisheries . |
| 16 | As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor . |
| 17 | And as they met a passion exploded between them ; a hunger that terrified Folly with its intensity . |
| 18 | Half way along they met a woman . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | En route they met a number of people they knew , hearing their stories and telling their own . |
| 21 | Proposals , submitted through the Co-ordinator , would have to be assessed by the Group to ensure that they met a number of criteria . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | they expected , they expected a lot of er applications . |
| 24 | And they expected a lot of but they did n't expect that many . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After they married they got a council flat on the second floor overlooking a main road . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well they got a grant you see . |
| 29 | I do n't recall if they got a conviction for Arnie . |
| 30 | And they got a stockbroker , someone who used to be a stockbroker , actually managing the whole practice . |