Example sentences of "and [noun] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No doubt there was some cross or ornament they found when they robbed that poor creature , and Adolph had made a fantasy out of it . |
| 2 | Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie 's flat . |
| 3 | She wished she could go back in time , to when she and Jezrael had shared a room and secrets after Mom put the lights out . |
| 4 | A few of the divisions were in the battalion phase of training and marksmanship had shown a level of attainment second only to the United States . |
| 5 | The Black and Tans had captured a fella called Michael Fitzgerald , an important IRA leader . |
| 6 | They occurred only weeks after Lebanon and Syria had signed a friendship treaty [ see p. 38214 ] . |
| 7 | Intense negotiations between both sides and Onusal had produced a breakthrough on June 15 , when the government conceded a key FMLN demand , announcing that the laws which had created the extreme right-wing paramilitary National Guard and Treasury Police would be repealed by the National Assembly . |
| 8 | In February of 1931 , he and Warnie had attended a production of James Elroy Flecker 's Hassan at the Oxford Playhouse . |
| 9 | Back in the city , Sam and Graeme had owned a prop hire business , lending out country antiques , backgrounds and surfaces to photographers and stylists , mostly for cookery pictures . |
| 10 | In May 1875 Japan and Russia had concluded a treaty whereby Japan acknowledged Russian suzerainty over the island of Sakhalin in return for her own possession of the Kurile Isles , the archipelago running northeast from the coast of Hokkaido . |
| 11 | Dad and Pop had built a garage and had just finished laying a concrete drive . |
| 12 | He felt a surge of rage , realizing that Busacher and Hans had played a trick on him . |
| 13 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 14 | Reuters news agency cited him as saying that he and Klaus had agreed a timetable for moves towards the split and for preparing legislation at both federal and republic level to ensure a peaceful transition to two independent states . |
| 15 | George and Elaine had opened a bottle of wine . |
| 16 | Andy and Helen had spent a year in Britain . |
| 17 | He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre . |
| 18 | The USA and Canada had sought a commitment to dismantle all agricultural subsidies over the next 10 years on the grounds that such subsidies distorted world trade and formed a major impediment to the further liberalization of world trade being currently negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) within the " Uruguay Round " [ see pp. 37227-28 ] . |
| 19 | On Thursday 23 June Charles and Louis had announced a timetable : next day , 24 June , they would celebrate the Feast of St John the Baptist 's Nativity ; they would join battle on 25 June at 8 a.m . |
| 20 | In April 1972 , in the Basle Agreement , the central banks of the Six , Britain , Denmark and Eire had formed a currency ‘ snake ’ , by which they valued their currencies within a certain percentage of the US dollar . |
| 21 | Liberals had argued for a wider franchise for years and Unionists had demanded a redistribution , so both sides got something of what they wanted and proportional representation was thrown in with the present mood of Labour in mind , so that the anti-socialist parties would be able to consolidate their position if necessary . |
| 22 | He said he and his wife , Tracie , and their sons Michael , ten , and Dale had had a lie down . |
| 23 | Inevitably , Madeleine 's name had cropped up and Harry had felt a pang of nostalgia remembering the little girl with her white dresses and long , golden plaits , laughing or stamping her foot if her brother did n't give her her own way . |
| 24 | Here they were , a nomadic people they had fled from Egypt from the , from the bondage and tyranny of oppression , and God had provided a land which was flowing with milk and honey , it was theirs ! |
| 25 | Very noteworthy was the imaginative decision to give help and advice to those schools which had shown by their own efforts that their thinking and planning had reached a stage where they were ready to make more effective use of innovative methods and resource materials . |
| 26 | Speelman and Timman had agreed a draw on Tuesday night in their adjourned game from the first round . |
| 27 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 28 | Students and staff had taken a break from lectures , others had travelled from Murray 's home town of Bath and the family home in Lancashire to attend the 40 minute service . |
| 29 | Guppy and Marsh had insured a consignment of gems for £1.8 million . |
| 30 | Woolley and Dickinson and Callaghan had ambushed a patrol of six Triplanes . |