Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 2 | The Glasgow Film Society , headed by Charles Oakley , was the largest in Europe and had indicated a certain demand already existed in Glasgow for the kind of films which the Curzon and Academy Cinemas showed in London . |
| 3 | Marius had been a skinhead and had assaulted a Turkish immigrant , fleeing the pending court case to join up in Lille . |
| 4 | The committee , as if for protection against the masses , elected to follow Auguste 's example and had reserved a first-class railway compartment on the 10.45 express from Victoria . |
| 5 | He revelled in music and had reached a well-matured view of life and people , and was happy . |
| 6 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 7 | Scotti represented a Naples constituency as deputy and had opposed a new DC policy that ministers should resign their parliamentary seats . |
| 8 | For her sake , Harry had abandoned his political ambitions , and had become a simple man of the church . |
| 9 | By the time of his third Melbourne Cup in November he had already won eight races as a five-year-old and had become a national idol , but the handicapper had shovelled ten stone ten pounds on his back for the Cup , so it was no disgrace when he could finish only eighth . |
| 10 | I drew this item to the attention of congress last year since when my branch has lost thirty four members to new caps including one who was making good progress and had become a national delegate . |
| 11 | Ms Harman also claimed the Conservatives had ‘ ruthlessly fiddled the NHS waiting list figures with the same ruthlessness as they fiddled the unemployment figures , ’ and had created a two-tier health service . |
| 12 | Barr stated that he accepted the recommendations in the report and had created a special unit in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department to pursue the matter . |
| 13 | He was entirely serious , and had adopted a portentous tone suitable for expressing admiration for the Greatest Living Englishman . |
| 14 | But it was not in the way that the poor had always looked alike — it was not , that is , because they were shabby , shoeless and grubby as moles — but because the gangs wished to look alike , and had adopted a uniform dress-style . |
| 15 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 16 | At the end of the day our friends and I had mastered ‘ bend ze knees ’ and ‘ turn in ze feet ’ and had turned a healthy shade of scarlet around the nasal slopes . |
| 17 | Born in 1841 , Robert 's origins were bona fide proletarian ; he worked in a glass factory and as a house painter , taking evening classes in art which proved such a successful venture that he was able to set up a studio by 1869 and had developed a substantial reputation by the 1880s . |
| 18 | However , even they would n't allow her near their reseau , and had enlisted a comparative outsider to meet her . |
| 19 | The Doctor glanced inside , and saw that Dubois had left several feathers on the bed , and had scrawled a strange symbol on the wall above the headboard . |
| 20 | In the very short space of ten seasons Mains played a hundred games for Otago and had begun a steady succession of matches in All Black trials . |
| 21 | However , the bill exempted the mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , an issue which had provoked fierce rioting in recent years and had played a major part in the collapse of the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] . |
| 22 | It had been formed to act as a co-ordinating body for banned organizations , and had played a leading role in the 1984-86 uprisings in black townships . |
| 23 | In a statement on July 31 the IRA said that Gow had been killed because he had been central to the formulation of British government policy decisions on Northern Ireland , including those during the hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the " shoot-to-kill " operations of 1982 , and had remained a close confidant of the Prime Minister until his death . |
| 24 | Mr Malik had been brought up in Cheltenham and had attended a public school , although he was never precise about which one . |
| 25 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 26 | Hugh was already committed to the marathon trip when he heard that the special care school had been burgled and had lost a vital computer and software , which is crucial in helping the children 's development |
| 27 | In fact , one of her students who was black showed a remarkable sympathy with Emily Dickinson , and had written a good essay on the short poem beginning , ‘ Drowning is not so pitiful/As the attempt to rise ’ . |
| 28 | Mr Waldegrave said Britain was continuing to press Moscow over long-term ‘ refusenik ’ cases , and had achieved a reasonable response , with more than 70 per cent of cases raised being resolved . |
| 29 | The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work . |
| 30 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |