Example sentences of "and had [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 5 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
| 16 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 17 | She had been born a male , but had later undergone sexual conversion surgery and had lived as a woman for eighteen years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 26 | He seemed almost normal again ; he had been staring out of the window and had commented on a street name he remembered from his London period . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When he had left , he had loved them desperately , and had hidden in the stifling furnace of his cabin for days , weeping himself dry . |
| 30 | 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 . |