Example sentences of "[adv] and had a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started .
2 By the time I reached Tintern I could go in straight lines easily and had a right wrist the size of a tennis ball that was painful to touch and crackled ominously when I flexed it .
3 What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another .
4 Bracewell visited a specialist yesterday and had a painful-looking array of tubes removed from his nostrils !
5 He glared at me and then walked past and had a sharp look around the office .
6 I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play .
7 He was n't in residence at the college now and had a small flat in Gloucester .
8 She was thinner than when Carrie had seen her before and had a transparent look , like a skeleton leaf : all her veins and bones showing .
9 We left there soon after 3pm and had a lovely ride through the counryside to one of our favourite haunts , Heaven Farm , near Uckfield .
10 She danced with zest , sang sweetly and had a fine sense of comic timing .
11 ‘ If your evening began well and had a bad middle , I hope you enjoyed the end . ’
12 And on Monday she came over here and had a quick lunch with me because Mrs Brissett was cleaning over at Ivy Cottage .
13 They still spent Christmas quietly and had a big house party for the New Year .
14 On 11 June 1991 she received chemotherapy with antiemetic cover of intravenous dexamethasone 8 mg and metoclopramide 10 mg followed by dexamethasone 4 mg four times a day orally and had a further urticarial attack associated with bronchospasm .
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