Example sentences of "and had [adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1918 there were many Labour Party parliamentarians and trade unionists who would willingly have excluded the ILP from the party , were it not that opposition to the war had spread quite widely and had partly justified the ILP position . |
| 2 | It had once been a middle-of-the-road paper with a big circulation and had traditionally reflected the views , or prejudices , of its middle-of-the-road readers . |
| 3 | In the circumstances the defendants had done that which was reasonably practicable and had thereby satisfied the duty of care imposed upon them . |
| 4 | The educational system had failed him — an education system that had relied largely upon on-the-job training and part-time or distance study was inadequate and had ineptly squandered the intellect of its candidates . |
| 5 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 6 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 7 | The movies succeeded because they had gone to the people and had seemingly bypassed every obstacle . |
| 8 | It is certain that the electors discussed the name of Stephen Neill , who had had a far more brilliant academic career as an undergraduate than Michael Ramsey and had lately dazzled the university by his lecturing and preaching power . |
| 9 | The Commando raids , however , had been too unwieldy and had thus lacked the element of surprise . |
| 10 | He had in fact saved the lands and life of Sir Thomas , who was charged with supplying money to Margaret of Anjou during the Wars of the Roses and had thus infuriated the king . |
| 11 | The most they would say in 1961 regarding Cuba 's ideological status was that ‘ Cuba had achieved its revolution independently and had freely chosen the path of socialist development ’ . |
| 12 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 13 | Those circumstances had brought about the capitalist system and had also created the concepts on which it was based . |
| 14 | As in the previous demonstrations , a large number of those attending were middle class , some of whom had been involved in the demonstrations of 1973 ( which had effectively deposed the existing military dictatorship — see pp. 26209-10 ) and had also witnessed the army massacre of students at Thammasat University three years later [ see pp. 28102-03 ] . |
| 15 | At a meeting last summer , he mentioned that he was suffering from a sudden bout of back pain and had just visited an acupuncturist . |
| 16 | He quit the booth and had just turned the corner when the plain-clothes policeman emerged from an alley and glanced at the bank of kiosks . |
| 17 | Ivy looked well and had just had a holiday in a private hotel [ Broome Park , once the property of Lord Kitchener ] in Kent . |
| 18 | The first time , I was a student and had just finished a holiday job as a shopfitter in Soho . |
| 19 | Ten years ago Eddie Murphy was aged 19 and had just left a job in a shoe store to start on Saturday Night Live , playing a variety of characters including Buck Wheat , Mr. Rogers and Velvet Jones . |
| 20 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 21 | I was waiting to go up to university and had just got a job as a prep-school master . |
| 22 | " Yesterday ! " cried Matthew and raised his knife at arm 's length , as if he were St George and had just slaughtered the dragon . |
| 23 | He had been surprised at Sam 's willingness to stay , and had even felt a flicker of jealousy when he had flopped contentedly down in the grass beside the boy 's feet . |
| 24 | She wanted to be a hairdresser , and had even started a course , but consequently had to leave . |
| 25 | As a student , Dinah was careful with money , and had even got a lift to the festival from her history teacher , to save money . |
| 26 | It had heartened her though that , probably from basic good manners , she had been able to mask her reluctance to get into the car with Ivo , and had even found a smile for him . |
| 27 | Throughout the '80s he had been a tower of strength as the last line in defence and had single-handedly reversed the image of the inept Scottish keeper . |
| 28 | Throughout his travels he had met and been impressed by fellow globetrotters from China , and had slowly formulated a plan to create a thorough visual documentation of Chinese civilisation . |
| 29 | The Syrian Defence Minister , Gen. Mustafa Tlass , had visited Moscow in February and had reportedly received a pledge of military aid . |
| 30 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |