Example sentences of "and had [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It forms a bypass around Crowmarsh Gifford and had previously had a good safety record . |
| 2 | It was a tragedy that the very regions that needed support and had previously enjoyed a generous level of regional assistance suffered those cuts . |
| 3 | But now , rather like recording afresh over the existing programme on an audio or visual cassette , Sylvia had superimposed a successful situation and had thereby made a significant change in the data recognized by her subconscious . |
| 4 | Luce was about to ask him what he meant , when she recalled him saying his father 's marriage had been arranged , and had n't proved a happy one , and bit her tongue . |
| 5 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 6 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 7 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 8 | Perdita was settling down and had even hit a respectable forehand which only just missed the goal when Alejandro , out of some devilry , swopped one of his sons and a cousin for Luke and Angel . |
| 9 | It was beginning to take over from the London external degrees , and had already established a substantial range of subject areas in which it could work . |
| 10 | Nathan had spent 122 days in prison in 1990 for meeting PLO officials , and had subsequently staged a 40-day hunger strike in protest against the law . |
| 11 | Blaize had been deposed as leader of the New National Party which he led to a landslide electoral victory under US auspices in 1984 and had defiantly formed a new grouping . |
| 12 | ( He had first formed a minority government in 1985 , ending over 40 years of PCP rule in the province , and had then won a large majority at elections in 1987 — see p. 35452 . ) |
| 13 | She was in line as a possible replacement for Gregory , and had actually taken a bass guitar to her parent 's home in Portsmouth over the Christmas holidays to set about learning how to play The Wedding Present 's material . |
| 14 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 15 | He seemed to be having difficulty with the second pint , and had only drunk a third of it when he looked at his watch . |
| 16 | He had been apprenticed to the kitchens at the Ritz and had simultaneously developed a theatrical bent , performing as a dancer at the Players ' Theatre . |
| 17 | Two years earlier , on a more limited franchise , the first Senegalese deputy , Blaise Diagne , had been elected to the French National Assembly and had rapidly become a junior minister . |