Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Labour Party had announced , in 1964 or 66 , its intention to ‘ oppose capitalism ’ fundamentally and had explained what this was likely to involve in terms of dislocation of international trade and payments ( even Callaghan 's mildly redistributive budget of 1964 was enough to cause a run on the pound ) , and the onus which would have to be placed on the trade unions in running industry , given the likely non-co-operation of many among the managerial strata , it is quite implausible to say they would have been elected to office . |
| 2 | Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery . |
| 3 | When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral . |
| 4 | The official was a friend of mine , and had done me some good turns over the previous few months ; most of which time I had spent in this same hotel . |
| 5 | He was six foot seven and had developed his own style of street fighting which he called Zen-Do Kai . |
| 6 | By the time he had completed the manoeuvre , she had set one of the let-down tables for two and had begun her own meal . |
| 7 | The music reflected his mood and had lost its former tranquillity . |
| 8 | From his days as a courier , Nicholas had many sources of information , and had asked them all to report . |
| 9 | The Bell had asked in July , " What do the people need ? " , and had answered its own question by saying " It is very simple , the people need land and liberty " . |
| 10 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 11 | The established main roads that had been used for traffic between the medieval towns , and had made their own width with the usage of centuries , were generally left untouched by any parish awards . |
| 12 | Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] . |
| 13 | But this — was as though Fox had died and was still dying , and had enjoyed her own kill … . |
| 14 | An economics graduate , he had become an adviser to Solidarity in 1980 , and had started his own timber haulage company after losing his job in industrial training following the 1981 imposition of martial law . |
| 15 | Such a different walk from the day she arrived and had carried her own bag into the house . |
| 16 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 17 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 18 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 19 | She herself had never been a woman to dote on babies and had found her own daughter much more interesting as she grew older . |
| 20 | Mr Warburton , whose responsibility it was to run an efficient , economic , and safe railway , had considered the CIOR 's embargo to be prohibitive and had issued his own perceived clarification of it to regional managers before the meeting at which the new Newton lay-out was approved . |
| 21 | The important thing here is to look at the nature of the evidence , which is opinion and hearsay — that MacDonald favoured the idea , and had re-aligned his own political thinking . |
| 22 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |