Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Mr. Stavanger and Mr. Andrew both liked a glass in the Masters ' Room , but neither of them ever took a drop too much . |
| 2 | It was no longer a question of looking for a path to follow but of choosing which , for they rarely went a mile without being faced with the need to choose . |
| 3 | They badly needed a hit at the time . |
| 4 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 5 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 6 | No but they did n't use it for they did n't have a license then , they only got a license after the war you see . |
| 7 | ‘ We believe they only had a couple of gallons of fuel aboard . |
| 8 | Because there 's only a couple , they only had a couple of security guards did n't they ? |
| 9 | Nigel was saying that they only had a couple , you know , cos they like you |
| 10 | Wandsworth where they only had a majority of one , they they they they destroyed the Labour Party . |
| 11 | Perhaps Councillors in Oxford should be grateful that they only had a shark and a pair of legs to get upset about . |
| 12 | They only had a week . |
| 13 | If the agreement satisfied all the requirements of a tenancy , then the agreement produced a tenancy and the parties can not alter the effect of the agreement by insisting that they only created a licence . |
| 14 | Kitchens that were tiled so that they only needed a wipe down the walls and a quick mop of the floor . |
| 15 | Now , independent taxation means that th that you 've both got an allowance of fourteen thousand two hundred before age allowance is abated , but for teachers who 're you know retired early , er some years ago , and they perhaps got a pension for themselves , a pension for their wife , then obviously when they got to sixty five , quite ou because it was calculated as a , as er one total , it actually abated their allowance quickly . |
| 16 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 17 | A certain firm famous for their ‘ bags ’ trouser suits , used to do an extensive line of grey anoraks , but they obviously had a visit from the style police and were made to put bits of navy blue and red in them or face a lengthy jail sentence . |
| 18 | In open-air ceremonies , they apparently used a triton shell to amplify and distort their voices . |
| 19 | They merely asked a question and received an answer . |
| 20 | But the way in which the New Critics developed Eliot 's axiom did not entirely do away with the author : instead , by shifting his position from the outside to the inside of the text , they merely justified a shift in methodology from the biographical to the words-on-the-page approach . |
| 21 | They almost tarnished their clean-living image in Belgium when they inadvertently visited a brothel . |
| 22 | Well they did like a talk thing and people were like going yeah I feel the skin cream is really good , they just had a chat |
| 23 | They just had a problem . |
| 24 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
| 25 | They already had a lock on the number Zack had used first , but when he changed booths , even though the kiosks were side-by-side in Dunstable , they lost him . |
| 26 | When the line-up was finalised with Charman in the spring of 1985 , they already had a set of six songs which they rehearsed repeatedly . |
| 27 | The villagers of Ramsala , recipients of the Palm Beach dollars , explained to the cameras that they desperately needed a clinic . |
| 28 | Although the girls could be noisy and difficult to discipline they generally observed a neatness in their work habits that continued to impress me . |
| 29 | They thus created a class of semi-employed pensioners , which was the foundation of their social strength in the larger towns . |
| 30 | They thus invoked a host of resistances , the nucleus for new nationalisms . |