Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Basil now knew his secret , and had seen the real Dorian Gray . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 9 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 10 | The rest of my family was made up of three sisters — Sal , the eldest who was five and knew when she was born because it was in the middle of the night and had kept the old man awake , Grace who was three and did n't cause anyone to lose sleep , and red-headed Kitty who was eighteen months and never stopped bawling . |
| 11 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 12 | One fighter had been a Skinhead and had worn the appropriate ‘ gear ’ of his time but had now grown out of this kind of thing . |
| 13 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 14 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
| 15 | He 'd wept at the lack of talent , enjoying the attention of fifteen girls , and had played the hard-bitten foreign correspondent to their naivety . |
| 16 | Item — somehow de Craon was involved in all this and had bribed the unwitting Father Reynard . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher had established her environmentalist credentials in several speeches and had replaced the true-blue but ungreen Nicholas Ridley with the practically viridescent Chris Patten as Environment Secretary . |
| 18 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |
| 19 | Tennants had lived in and around the village for many generations and had served the small community as farmers , millers and blacksmiths . |
| 20 | The Georgian Communist Party , which had adopted a nationalist manifesto for the elections and had joined the other 120-odd political parties in campaigning for restoration of Georgia 's independence , failed to build on its strong first-round showing , and increased its seat total only to 64 . |
| 21 | At the close of the 1990–91 season 's business , Phil Barber was Palace 's longest-serving current player and had joined the select troupe of men to have played over 250 games for The Eagles some fourteen months previously , so that is fair to say that there has seldom been a more popular fellow to wear the Palace colours . |
| 22 | Because in that instant she had fired the ship 's rear guns and had blasted the other ship 's nose section into particles . |
| 23 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 24 | While at Kedleston , he had already started altering the earlier , formal landscape and had made the upper lake . |
| 25 | Then the lady told her brother that the little tailor had rescued her from her sleep and had killed the black artist and had won her hand in marriage . |
| 26 | Through Roszak 's influence he had read Thomas Merton and Kenneth Rexroth , the anarchists Paul Goodman and Alex Comfort , and had absorbed the new literature of the civil rights movement , Liberation magazine . |
| 27 | He had been involved with Buddhism to the point of almost becoming a monk , and had formed the mixed media troupe called Feathers , after studying mime under Lindsay Kemp . |
| 28 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 29 | Many had great dents in them , as if they had been drawn through fences and over walls , and had taken the rough side of the hill . |
| 30 | A straggler had also been rounded up and had rejoined the other whales . |