Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spoken Lear 's opening lines and I had felt a shiver run through the theatre 's great darkness , because the voice was there , and the power of it , and he was suddenly not a dirty old man at all , but a great , kind , foolish and painfully honest King . |
| 2 | Tony and I had organized a dog sledging trip which we hoped would take us from Dividal in northern Norway through Sweden and into Finland . |
| 3 | But facts are facts , and I had heard a hound . |
| 4 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 5 | Val and I had met a party of school children with the master giving them a botany lesson as we walked , so we tagged on and saw a lot we would n't otherwise have noticed . |
| 6 | Please to remember I had finished my own stint , and I had served a period on Bennett 's staff as his " horse-thief " — the recruiter and trainer , I was the Group training inspector . |
| 7 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 8 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 9 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 10 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 11 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 12 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 13 | Jimmy Warren is experiencing stress trauma and I had suggested a visit to Len Seager in hospital , but he was n't sure he could handle it , at least not on his own . |
| 14 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 15 | She had a lot of curly hair and she had tied a bow in it . |
| 16 | And she had made a choice ; she had chosen not to go home , she had chosen to live here and cope with sharks between the furniture and Bryony 's contempt , in order to purchase a freedom … to choose what she would do next . |
| 17 | And she had devised a hook for time with Lucy . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't expect to hear anything for at least a week , but the next day she rang with the words and melody all worked out — and she had sat a school exam the same day . ’ |
| 19 | The extended family was an accepted way of life in the dales and she had shared a home with her husband 's parents and brother until their deaths . |
| 20 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |
| 21 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 22 | He joined her to say he would not be in the office that morning , a contact in the city had an exclusive story for him and they had arranged a meeting . |
| 23 | Mrs Harrison had always been a keen gardener and they had built a rockery , down which a small stream flowed with the aid of an electric pump . |
| 24 | By 1990 turnover had increased to £150,000 and they had made a profit of £32,000 . |
| 25 | And they had had a discussion about it , speculating as to whether he actually lived there or was there to kill something , rats , moles , any sort of infestation . |
| 26 | Pamella ! ’ and I 'm just freaking out and hanging on to Tim Taylor , trying to get to the plane , and I 'm wearing this scarf on my head to cover my face and they had pulled a straw — they said this ! — for who was going to tear the veil from my face and this fat guy got it and ripped it , pulled my hair , poked me in the eye — I was physically assaulted ! |
| 27 | And they had fostered a girl because they could n't have any children of their own as far as I know and and , ah they she 's a com , a complete horror ! |
| 28 | Apparently on 5 July $600,000 had been paid into the account of Hildenbrand and her associate Lanzone and they had issued a receipt to the museum 's director . |
| 29 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 30 | She had seen her general practitioner a week after the separation and he had prescribed a tranquillizer . |