Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 2 | It was the fourth building in the area that the association considered for conversion and had studied in detail . |
| 3 | The hulking nephew of Kalv Arnason had been only a youth when King Olaf had killed his uncle Ølve at the spring feast at Sparbu and had given to Kalv his uncle 's rich widow in gratitude . |
| 4 | The Sergeant informed me that No. 46 Royal Marine Commando had come ashore in Normandy on D-Day + 1 and had gone into action almost straight away at a spot further along the coast from here , against a crack German S.S. Unit ( Hitler Youth ) . |
| 5 | His father had been given Grágás at fourteen , and had gone with Thorkel Fóstri raiding the tribute-lands . |
| 6 | Word had reached Carewscourt that several of the big landowning families in the county had sold out and had gone to England . |
| 7 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 8 | I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later . |
| 9 | He 'd been in the country 2 years before being arrested and had gone to Goa to spend Christmas with friends . |
| 10 | His father had been savagely beaten himself as a child , and had gone through life feeling a failure . |
| 11 | The boys were with Mrs Titcombe and young Thomas reported that his father was concerned about Rhoda and had gone in search of her . |
| 12 | I had left Jamaica when I was seven years of age and had lived in England for nineteen years . |
| 13 | Clara had visited this shop many times , and had stood for hours surreptitiously reading C. P. Snow , Tolkien , D. H. Lawrence and the poems of T. S. Eliot . |
| 14 | They had moved together and had stood in front of a monument , seemingly absorbed . |
| 15 | On the real occasion , Comfort had arrived back from the river and had stood in front of them both , her blonde hair a mass of tangled curls , each curl spangled with water . |
| 16 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |
| 17 | And Miss Watson , of course , really was her better , for she had been a headmistress before this , and had taught in town schools , so large and magnificent that naturally she was much wiser and more experienced . |
| 18 | Armitage suggested that the shortfall for fiscal 1990 was $96,000,000 and had arisen from cuts in Bush 's aid request imposed by Congress , whereas Manglapus claimed that the true figure , based on the estimated cost of other " unfulfilled promises " , was $222,580,000 . |
| 19 | A major road and pipeline already crossed the region and had led to oil spills and the release of contaminated water containing hydrocarbons , heavy metals and bactericides and other chemicals into the soil and water . |
| 20 | This Commission had undertaken an immensely detailed study of poverty and poor relief and had ended in conflict between the majority of its members and a minority composed of Beatrice Webb , George Lansbury , Frances Chandler and the Rev. Russell Wakefield , Dean of Norwich . |
| 21 | Another German atrocity was the execution by firing squad , in 1915 , of Nurse Edith Cavell , who had been matron of a Belgian Hospital in Brussells since 1907 , and had stayed on duty despite the German invasion of that country , and who had been accused by the Germans , of assisting British , French and Belgian soldiers to escape captivity . |
| 22 | Some teachers were aware of this lack and had turned to curriculum publications such as The School Curriculum ( DES , 1981 ) for guidance . |
| 23 | However , by the time the war ended BMK had long since finished with blankets ( after they had produced 2.5 million ) and had turned to engineering . |
| 24 | Fields had been born in America and had moved to Britain as a child . |
| 25 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 26 | A friend of his had recently sold his business in Liverpool and had moved to Wales . |
| 27 | Back in New York , John Wilcock was still writing his column , still hanging out with the Realist 's Paul Krassner , and had moved from New York Times travel writing to travel books , indeed an opus on Mexico had begun to open — or dilate — his eyes to drugs . |
| 28 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 29 | She did n't marry until she was 63 and had retired from teaching . |
| 30 | By the mid-1970s , therefore , the major elements of the Plowden reforms were in place and had developed in sophistication ; yet they failed , at that point , to prevent the fastest ever growth in public spending outside war-time . |