Example sentences of "and had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a very keen and accomplished sportsman and had skied several times before . |
| 2 | In fact , by then Reagan had served a valuable apprenticeship in the communications industry and had completed two terms as governor of the most populous state in the union with a GNP comparable to that of Canada and exceeded by only six national economies . |
| 3 | Private Macaulay had served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 15 months and had completed six months of his tour of duty at the time of his death . |
| 4 | In his evidence Professor Gresham had said he had experience of bites by dogs and foxes , and had studied wild animal injuries in books . |
| 5 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 6 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 7 | King was back with his latest promotion this week … and had seen better audiences . |
| 8 | Her red dress had not been made to walk in and had seen better days . |
| 9 | He patted a paunch that had swelled considerably since Gentle had last seen him , and was testing the seams of his shirt , which , like him , was florid and had seen better years . |
| 10 | He had never wanted her to be given in marriage to Dom João , and had seen that gentleman 's non-arrival as a good way of calling off the match should Sara wish it . |
| 11 | But he had finally done so and had seen other eagles , each in his own cage , all mature , all seeming big and threatening . |
| 12 | Most pleased with their results among the major Old Master dealers were Hill-Stone Inc. of New York who had sold a Canaletto etching and had seen considerable interest shown in their Leon Davent ‘ Cupid with bandaged Eyes ’ ( Z.5 ) , their Schaufelein woodcut ‘ Wild man and family ’ — a rare uncut impression with the text beneath — and their beautiful ‘ Bacchus and Ariadne ’ by Vico , printed on blue paper . |
| 13 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 14 | The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view . |
| 15 | A man of sincere , but unformed , liberal political convictions , he had been angered by the events of 5 October and had given medical treatment to some of those injured on that day . |
| 16 | In a House of Commons debate on Nov. 28 , 1990 , however , the UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd declared that Syria had made " energetic efforts " to facilitate the release of Western hostages in Lebanon and had given formal assurances of its " rejection of international terrorism " . |
| 17 | In this whole affair the clergy — even Winchelsey — had been unable to keep the favourite at bay , and had exercised negligible influence upon the formulation and implementation of the governmental reforms . |
| 18 | He – had lived an evil life , and had destroyed other people 's lives as well . |
| 19 | The SAS themselves had suffered no casualties and had destroyed sixty-one enemy aircraft , plus stores , petrol and vehicles . |
| 20 | He went on to say that he had denied that Pakistan was providing weapons and training for Kashmiri insurgents and had assured Indian leaders of Pakistan 's commitment to the 1972 Simla Agreement ( whereby the two countries had agreed to respect a line of control in Kashmir resulting from ceasefire positions at the end of 1971 Indo-Pakistan war ) . |
| 21 | Sadler was sensitive to what he called ‘ the great stir of thought ’ which had disturbed ‘ the traditional ways of looking at things ’ , and had affected all classes . |
| 22 | On May 11 the Finance and Planning Minister Saifur Rahman said that the cyclone had cost the country US$3,000 million in economic losses and had rendered 4,000,000 people homeless . |
| 23 | Lily had wanted to be kind and had arranged another grouping — herself dressed up again and as many of those originally present as possible . |
| 24 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |
| 25 | Paul lives in a tiny bungalow , and had kept marine fish in a four foot tank for several years . |
| 26 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 27 | The EC had , among other things , ( i ) financed the construction of a road through one of Zaïre 's forests so as to increase production at a meat processing plant ; ( ii ) financed timber extraction projects in Equatorial Guinea designed to quadruple timber production over the next four years ; and ( iii ) financed the Carajás iron ore project in the state of Pará , Brazil , which had destroyed much of the Amazon rainforest , had led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians after the opening up of their habitat 10 years earlier and had consumed 4,000,000 tonnes of charcoal each year to smelt the iron ore into pig iron . |
| 28 | The Lithuanian citizenship law , passed by the parliament on Dec. 5 , had established the criteria of 10 years ' residence in Lithuania , knowledge of the language and the Constitution , and a source of income , and had prohibited dual citizenship . |
| 29 | This was largely because the 1990 budget agreement — reached after a protracted and bitter struggle — had already dictated overall ceilings for defence , foreign aid and discretionary domestic spending , and had prohibited any tax cuts or the expansion of major benefit programmes unless specific revenue could be found to fund them . |
| 30 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |