Example sentences of "[coord] had [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he was still sleepy , or had just indulged in a stultifying beetle meal . |
| 2 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 3 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 4 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 5 | I came to the school with considerable amateur experience of Shakespeare with the Oxford University Dramatic Society and had even played in a real theatre in Oxford . |
| 6 | A couple of years younger , Baker looked older , and had already appeared in a film . |
| 7 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 8 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 9 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 10 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 11 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 12 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 13 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 14 | Known to be pro-Syrian , he had earlier argued against the boycott , but had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for the National Charter List party in the Bekaa . |