Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived . |
| 2 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 5 | The Special Branch had been watching him , and had accumulated an extensive dossier on his activities . |
| 6 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 7 | There were others ( such as Howard Teicher , who had gone on the trip to Tehran and had seen the spare parts in the back of the plane ) who were ‘ not in all the boxes within the boxes but some element of the box ’ . |
| 8 | Basil now knew his secret , and had seen the real Dorian Gray . |
| 9 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 10 | He told me they had put into Puerto Gallegos to land seven Swedish engineers with spares for Volvo and Saab equipment and had seen an old wooden square-rigger lying at the Navy Yard quay . |
| 11 | I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own . |
| 12 | The Romans had put an end to the social struggles in the Greek cities and had given an implicit guarantee of survival for the wealthy . |
| 13 | The exercise had made the public familiar with the coalition and had given the local branches of the three parties experience in working together for a common purpose . |
| 14 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 15 | Marius had been a skinhead and had assaulted a Turkish immigrant , fleeing the pending court case to join up in Lille . |
| 16 | Chad announced that on Oct. 30 , 1989 , its troops had killed at least 600 members of the so-called Libyan Islamic Legion and had destroyed an important military base belonging to that force on the Sudan-Chad border . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He revelled in music and had reached a well-matured view of life and people , and was happy . |
| 19 | By the time I was through San Pedro de Lloc and had reached the turn-off to Cajamarca at San José my mind had built the man up into some sort of a monster . |
| 20 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 21 | She was due on March the nineteenth , and had reached the twenty-eighth week of her pregnancy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 24 | Scotti represented a Naples constituency as deputy and had opposed a new DC policy that ministers should resign their parliamentary seats . |
| 25 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 26 | Constructed " on a large scale " , she was en route from her birthplace in Scotland to London , and had steamed the 120 miles from Milford Haven against a head wind at an incredible 10 knots . |
| 27 | For her sake , Harry had abandoned his political ambitions , and had become a simple man of the church . |
| 28 | At school he had been an ace rugby player and had become a big burly man . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |