Example sentences of "and [adv] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To complete the picture of railways in this area one should add that the quite successful Leominster & Kington Railway was opened in 1862 and eventually had various extensions and branches , some of which were already under discussion when Kington was reached . |
2 | The pre-1974 sub-regional tier , the Hospital Management Committee ( HMC ) , was responsible for running a hospital or a group of hospitals and rarely had specific responsibilities to ensure that the needs of a defined population were met . |
3 | Oh on the stage , yeah , but in films she came in later and only had small parts and never made |
4 | Our house was small and only had two rooms . |
5 | Furthermore , many of the great nobles enriched themselves through war : the Earl of Arundel , for example , was reputed to be fabulously wealthy and apparently had 43,981 marks in bags in the tower of Arundel Castle when he died in 1376 and another 57,000 marks elsewhere . |
6 | She understood — mainly because she was only twenty-six and already had four children and another on the way . |
7 | They were involved in full-time evangelistic work before this and already had considerable experience of mission and church work . |
8 | I will be writing to the normal firms as usual , to get donations for the raffle , er now the other thing I 've got to report from is the stall , no before that the E C discussed applications by other organisations , now Sheffield and erm many other areas produce there own excellent publications , so I , I wrote of to Greater London Pensioner to Redbridge , to Senior Citizens in Sheffield , Anglian Pensioners , Grey Power and erm I , I 've sent letter 's to them and already had some copies back from Sheffield . |
9 | Owing to the limited budget , Barbara urged caution on decision on grants which were phased over more than one year , and thus had financial implications for the future . |
10 | They began to use their holdings in different regions and countries for different but complementary roles within their respective international patterns of plants , and thus had systematic effects on the evolution of employment patterns in different kinds of country . |
11 | They watched us through the holes , and always had two guns pointing directly at us . |
12 | ‘ I have taken great pains to stress that aspect in the sometimes heated discussions , ’ he said , adding he was not enthusiastic about the original proposals and still had serious reservations . |
13 | His Congo campaign achieved its preliminary aim in 1908 when the Free State was handed over to Belgium , and thereafter had some success in pressing the latter to adopt specific reforms , despite the reluctance of the British and French governments to antagonize Belgium , on whose friendship their European policies depended . |
14 | She mentions that there was another girl in her class at high school who was also called Denice Lewis and also had blonde hair . |
15 | The site was about three hours ' drive away from London and also had good communications with the north of the country . |
16 | Both men were lifelong friends of his and also had influential careers in Rome . |
17 | Early pollinators were attracted by pollen and probably had grinding mandibles : they also took ovules and developing seeds . |
18 | The initial publicity had , however , encouraged some pregnant girls along , including Sara , who had started coming when she was twenty-four weeks pregnant , and now had three-and-a-half weeks left to go . |
19 | Military and naval attachés usually regarded their appointments merely as interludes in their service careers and often had little sympathy with the outlook and preoccupations of professional diplomats . |
20 | It boasted a number of imposing public buildings , including a town hall , cathedral , military hospital and a theatre , and even had electric lighting , unusual in those days . |
21 | I always preferred bank fishing Toftingall and invariably had better results than from fishing from the boat . |
22 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
23 | He got dressed , and then had some breakfast and opened his letters . |
24 | Huy said , and then had another question . |
25 | Social democratic ideas took 50 years to form this century , and then had 40 years of government , including the Christian democratic variations applied in Europe . |
26 | They were unfortunate arrivals : two young men who played loud pop music during the evening and sometimes had noisy rows — including the landing in their sphere of operations . |
27 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
28 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
29 | Olivia , who likes her sleep , soon developed a great loathing for our morning visitors , but all her efforts to drive them away and apart had little success , and spectacularly failed to calm the passions of the energetically copulating birds . |
30 | It retained water and yet had subtle membranes which permitted air to penetrate and facilitated waste disposal of the embryo . |