Example sentences of "and had [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 2 | In a brief campaign , Aurangzeb had seized the empire , imprisoned his father , and had begun hunting down and murdering his three brothers . |
| 3 | But by midday they had taken most of it and had begun to dig in . |
| 4 | Eventually when he 'd exhausted his immediately available epithets and had to pause to think up a few more off-beat ones , I interrupted . |
| 5 | Haughey had denied all knowledge of the bugging , but on Jan. 21 Doherty said that he had taken the blame " to protect Haughey " and had decided to speak out only because a new telephone-tapping bill was about to be presented to the Dáil ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Wellcome was undergoing its own strategic review and had decided to get out of making vaccines . |
| 7 | then introduced our Sports Council Liaison Officer who has always been most helpful and had volunteered to come along and present their point of view . |
| 8 | The travellers paid eighteen thousand pounds for the site and had hoped to settle down and send their children to local schools . |
| 9 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 10 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 11 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 12 | The elephant had been leading a procession down the Chandni Chowk but had halted outside Gunthe Wallah 's and had refused to move on towards the Red Fort , despite the frantic proddings of its mahout , until it was first allowed to consume a box of Gunthe Wallah 's best mithai . |
| 13 | The other boy , David , was also puzzling about his experience in the cutting and had resolved to go back and try to find out if he had been dreaming ; somehow he did not feel frightened but more determined to see the tramp and make friends with him . |
| 14 | The Devil had put on his clothes — dark , close-fitting clothes — and had come sloping back . |
| 15 | Thorpe who was to have headed the bill said that he had been in touch with the promoters earlier in the year and had agreed to come over provided he was given details in writing . |
| 16 | She had met them in London the previous summer during their annual holiday and had agreed to travel out to Naples with them and look after their two young children . |
| 17 | This then was the paradox Neela grew up with and had to learn to grow out of . |