Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and had a " in BNC.
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1 | She was acutely depressed and had a pain in the back of her neck . |
2 | They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake . |
3 | When they were small they spoke only Welsh and had a black mongrel called Benja who is also referred to in this song . |
4 | I was extremely competitive and had a great desire to win . |
5 | But she was also beautiful and had a marvellously expressive voice . |
6 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
7 | ‘ Middlesbrough came at us really strong and had a couple of chances to punish us . |
8 | We had Su Friedrich , who 's a lesbian experimental film maker from New York here last year and a whole section of the documentary programme was devoted to her work and it was hugely successful , really stimulating and had a huge audience . ’ |
9 | Owing much in design to S. Vitale in Ravenna but on more elaborate lines , it was originally symmetrical and had a western entrance with atrium and two-storeyed gallery ; the courtyard here was large and had a capacity of 7000 . |
10 | He was stockily good-looking and had a manner that combined cleverness and nervous amiability . |
11 | The temptation to let go was strongly compelling and had a good argument to back it up . |
12 | The table was remarkably clean and had a patina that suggested an acquaintance with money rather than supper-plates . |
13 | He was excessively fat and had a sinister and aggressive expression . |
14 | But this is a small country and the Nazis were quite efficient and had a good network of informers so General Nečas was eventually executed . |
15 | Although it looked quite smart and had a wonderful aroma of apples and pears , there were very few bubbles and it tasted a bit like dry cider or sparkling apple juice . |
16 | Moping around Meadowlands last year when Mario 's son was racing and the old man was too and the whole scene was as unglamorous as the Jersey flatlands can be , the burgers blazing on wet barbecues , Karl Haas 's cigar smouldering briefly in the foreground , it was as if Mario had brought a whole world of his own into the paddock , a world he 'd always had , that was completely self-sufficient and had a cleaner , friendlier air . |
17 | In such areas the landscape was as much medieval as in the open-field lands but it was very different and had a different pattern of settlement within it . |
18 | At that time it was a kind of derelict brick structure , part of which er over there , the bit that 's at right angles to where we are now , was in a was a plumber 's showroom or had been and this part was actually derelict and had a demolition order on it . |