Example sentences of "and had [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and had raised £43.50 for the Guide Dogs , while the whole hospital team had raised over £1,800 . |
| 2 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 3 | He was hard pressed during the epidemic , and had obtained permission for the acting medical officer of health for the Borough to man a relief vaccination station at the Town Hall . |
| 4 | At last I got through , demanded an ambulance , and had to ask Masha for the number of the room . |
| 5 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |
| 6 | Matthei had welcomed the Rettig human rights report in March and had offered support for the government 's policy of national reconciliation [ see p. 38095 ] . |
| 7 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |
| 8 | Gary had beaten them to it , and had demanded contributions for the mission . |