Example sentences of "and had [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And er I got a questionable spot on the lung and had to go to the Ransom Sanatorium .
2 er s er but those occupations that worked shift and had to go round the clock had to have eight hour shifts , three shifts .
3 during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song .
4 The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books .
5 He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers .
6 It emerged that Harbury had rung Tavett 's home and been told by his wife that he was unwell and had gone to the doctor 's surgery .
7 Despite having one wing afire and disintegrating , he managed to get his crew away but only after his flight engineer , FS Colgan , found a parachute and attached it , and had gone to the aid of the wounded tail gunner .
8 Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway .
9 Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 .
10 Much against their natural inclinations , Jesus 's earthly followers were gradually persuaded that far from the Friday being the disastrous and final demise of their hero , by some inexplicable divine miracle he had dealt death itself a death-blow , and had risen from the grave to a new and everlasting life-form .
11 Hence the weedkiller train could not be put into the loop and had to remain on the main line , being put right up to the buffer stop because a passenger train was due .
12 The aircraft , which had a removable photographic panel in the base , was used for a number of our photographic assignments and had travelled throughout the United Kingdom and France for the magazine .
13 He could see no future in the drover 's life and had travelled around the north earning his living , usually with animals but often through casual farmwork .
14 ‘ I voted for Al Gore for Vice President and had to vote for the other fellow to get his ( Gore 's ) name , ’ Mr Clinton told a neighbour as reporters listened in .
15 Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] .
16 He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party .
17 He had made some fragmentary notes on some of the competition entries , and had commented on the recent Parliamentary debate at the meeting of the Architectural Photographic Association in February 1859 , at which Street was the main speaker .
18 One foggy night she lost her way and had to grope along the bank for some way finally realising that she had circled round and returned to the Halling side by mistake .
19 When he had left , he had loved them desperately , and had hidden in the stifling furnace of his cabin for days , weeping himself dry .
20 The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more .
21 The defence allege he was still there the next day and had insisted on the compulsory repatriation of Cossack prisoners to Soviet forces .
22 The EC Arbitration Commission had recommended also recognizing Macedonian independence , but Greece objected to an independent state under that name [ see p. 38734 ] , and had insisted on the inclusion of a clause in the EC criteria for recognition stating that republics should renounce " the use of a denomination which implies territorial claims " .
23 Yet a consciousness of Anglo-French differences was already apparent — it was based upon irrational prejudices and linguistic dissimilarities , and had existed since the mid to late twelfth century .
24 This is despite the fact that the veto clause is standard in private companies and had existed within the client company Articles of Association since the incorporation in 1979 .
25 ‘ It would have been better if he 'd killed me , and had done with the whole thing !
26 The Central Region also lacked those national and religious minorities whose commonly held views in some borderlands had bridged the psychological gap between town and country and had led to the formation of political parties after 1905 .
27 The failure to conclude the Uruguay Round had injected uncertainty into the international trade system , causing trade disputes to resurface , and had led to the " impression that there is one law for the most powerful members of GATT and quite another for all the rest " .
28 It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . "
29 The duke 's initial influence in the region had rested on his role as caretaker of the Herbert hegemony and had ended with the readjustments which followed Edward 's return in 1471 .
30 The duke 's initial influence in the region had rested on his role as caretaker of the Herbert hegemony and had ended with the readjustments which followed Edward 's return in 1471 .
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