Example sentences of "and had [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 2 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 3 | Hence the weedkiller train could not be put into the loop and had to remain on the main line , being put right up to the buffer stop because a passenger train was due . |
| 4 | ‘ I voted for Al Gore for Vice President and had to vote for the other fellow to get his ( Gore 's ) name , ’ Mr Clinton told a neighbour as reporters listened in . |
| 5 | He had made some fragmentary notes on some of the competition entries , and had commented on the recent Parliamentary debate at the meeting of the Architectural Photographic Association in February 1859 , at which Street was the main speaker . |
| 6 | When he had left , he had loved them desperately , and had hidden in the stifling furnace of his cabin for days , weeping himself dry . |
| 7 | The defence allege he was still there the next day and had insisted on the compulsory repatriation of Cossack prisoners to Soviet forces . |
| 8 | Yet a consciousness of Anglo-French differences was already apparent — it was based upon irrational prejudices and linguistic dissimilarities , and had existed since the mid to late twelfth century . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been better if he 'd killed me , and had done with the whole thing ! |
| 10 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
| 11 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 12 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 13 | Those taking part included President Mitterrand ( who had condemned the " particularly abject " attack at Carpentras and had called on the French people to " pull themselves together " ) , Prime Minister Michel Rocard , and other members of the government and senior politicians excluding the FN . |
| 14 | The Foreign Ministry claimed that the ship , which was flying the Greek-Cypriot flag and had sailed from the Bulgarian port of Varna , was found to be carrying arms including grenade launchers and mortars , which were not registered in its documentation and were probably destined for " terrorist groups " . |
| 15 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 16 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 17 | Polish television reported on April 20 that the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , established in July 1990 by Solidarity supporters [ see pp. 37620-21 ] , had dissolved itself and had re-formed as the Democratic-Social Movement . |
| 18 | She had seen pictures in books and on television of gaudily painted narrow boats and had warmed to the romantic life they portrayed . |
| 19 | The other two Commandos were Bretons and had served in the French Navy . |
| 20 | He had prowled contentedly in and out of the vestry and bellroom while she got on with her chores , had watched critically while she had arranged her six daffodils eked out with foliage in the vase at the foot of the Virgin , and had viewed with the bland indifference of childhood Miss Wharton 's frequent genuflections , obviously taking these sudden bobbings to be one more manifestation of the peculiar antics of adults . |
| 21 | These benefits had been a source of rising discontent and had contributed to the electoral success of the Republicans [ see above ] . |
| 22 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 23 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 24 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 25 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 26 | He was an artist with the knife , she had heard , and had apprenticed with the great Zarathustra at GenTech BioDiv before his ‘ suspension . ’ |
| 27 | Stalin , the architect of the revolutionary Soviet state , the instigator of unprecedented social reforms and freedoms , the defender of international peace and security , the supporter of Republican Spain , had struck a cynical deal with Hitler , had in one stroke abandoned the principles of collective security and defence of nation states , and had opted for the fascist diplomacy of " bilateral agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 28 | This morning she had fought a battle with herself and had left off the concealing shirt . |
| 29 | He had deeply resented the questions about himself as a personality , but had accepted Kegan 's whispered warning about antagonizing them again , and had submitted with the best grace he could muster . |
| 30 | I had seen the island where time begins , and had come to the sorry realization that the Pacific , the vastest of all oceans , is a far more complicated entity — if indeed it could ever be regarded as such — than it was possible to imagine . |