Example sentences of "and had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the church owned and managed the majority of the schools its faithful attended , and had a role in the management of the bulk of the remainder , the Roman catholic laity were left mainly on the receiving end of the educational policy thus legitimated . |
| 2 | The church was acting on behalf of all , and had a prime obligation to push for a public morality which matched its perception of the natural law lest the very fabric of society be torn asunder and its members cast on the road of moral decline . |
| 3 | Katrina went over and had a quick word with her , then she beckoned towards me . |
| 4 | Actually , she could probably have married him and had a few nice babies with his laughing blue eyes , his loony hippy fluffy hair , and maybe her eyebrows . |
| 5 | Mary McCulloch and big Mary went straight along to the Duke 's house with their loads of food and as they went in the Duke came out , dressed in a long plaid of turquoise blue , and had a quick low word with them . |
| 6 | ‘ So I bought a few chisels and some wood and had a go . |
| 7 | I ATTENDED four of the evening sessions of this year 's Great British Beer Festival and had a great time — my thanks to all those who worked so hard to make it such a success . |
| 8 | Mr Justice Roch said that because the defendant was deaf and had a speech disability a social worker , Jill Hughes , would sit in the dock and translate . |
| 9 | Todd was on Seabrook , who lowered three fences and had a refusal , leaving the New Zealand Olympic three-day event gold medallist without the slightest enthusiasm for this type of contest . |
| 10 | The delights of all-night dancing parties with weird lights on the walls were discovered by white bohemian crowds in California in the Sixties , when they were called acid tests , and had a quasi-religious significance . |
| 11 | The crew salvaged some food and had a barbecue on which they grilled fish and birds using timber from the boat . |
| 12 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 13 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
| 14 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 15 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 16 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 17 | Straightaway I went off and had a bright red flash put in across the front of my hair . |
| 18 | It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows . |
| 19 | Bristol proceeded with the aircraft 's design , and had a mock-up prototype completed by the end of the war . |
| 20 | Conran cites the time when Habitat and other leading British-Based retail groups were first entering overseas markets and had a struggle to make profits as another example of the fickle behaviour of City investors . |
| 21 | Our pool was the middle of three small heated tubs and had a jet spray to it , a powerful Jacuzzi that relaxed our minds as well as our bodies . |
| 22 | By the time I reached Tintern I could go in straight lines easily and had a right wrist the size of a tennis ball that was painful to touch and crackled ominously when I flexed it . |
| 23 | She was acutely depressed and had a pain in the back of her neck . |
| 24 | ‘ We picked up some customer projects — like the Metro Turbo and some Toyota work — and had a nice little business ticking away . |
| 25 | And when the nightmare of the after-dinner speech was over , we went to the bar and had a proper conversation about cars . |
| 26 | He also impounded Thom 's furniture and had a New Jersey warrant for his arrest issued , ’ says Wendy . |
| 27 | From the security point of view it was uncomfortably close to the road , and had a public footpath ( which has since been re-routed ) running across the garden , no more than two or three hundred yards from the house , but the Prince liked it . |
| 28 | She danced with zest , sang sweetly and had a fine sense of comic timing . |
| 29 | According to these members , Mr Aleksandar Kwiasnewski , a ‘ liberal ’ who is much younger than Mr Rakowski and had a rapid rise in the last phase of the Communist government , could replace him . |
| 30 | Mr Heddle lived at Hawkhurst , Kent , and had a constituency home in Lichfield . |