Example sentences of "and had [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the fourth building in the area that the association considered for conversion and had studied in detail . |
| 2 | Gooch damaged a finger as soon as the innings began and had to go to hospital , Pringle taking command ; but he could work no miracles and victory was gained for the loss of just two wickets . |
| 3 | I hurt my wrist in a fall recently and had to go to hospital , which is a teaching hospital . |
| 4 | Later be became giddy , sick and weak and had to go to hospital twice , but no-one knew what was wrong with him . |
| 5 | Rest of the cast fought him off but the tenor got cut about quite badly and had to go to hospital . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | His father had been savagely beaten himself as a child , and had gone through life feeling a failure . |
| 10 | The boys were with Mrs Titcombe and young Thomas reported that his father was concerned about Rhoda and had gone in search of her . |
| 11 | If Lancaster , with its castle and harbour , could have been garrisoned for James it could have provided a connecting link with France , but Forster could not spare the men and had to press on south , through wretched weather and along increasingly miry roads . |
| 12 | They had moved together and had stood in front of a monument , seemingly absorbed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | More awkward still , since Laura was not on board , he was obliged to lock up before going to the office , and had to wait on board , with his brief-case and umbrella , determinedly not listening , while Nenna went down to the saloon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some teachers were aware of this lack and had turned to curriculum publications such as The School Curriculum ( DES , 1981 ) for guidance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She did n't marry until she was 63 and had retired from teaching . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But war was under way again in southern Angola , the team faced obvious difficulties and had to rely on information from the Angolan government . |
| 24 | She received no support from the father for the child , and had to rely upon charity and from what is called ‘ the food bank ’ because she did not receive enough money from the welfare services to feed the child . |
| 25 | But the law reports are a random collection of cases , and the very fact that each of those cases resulted from a dispute which the parties could not settle by agreement and had to take to court may make them an unrepresentative sample of the applications of the procedure . |
| 26 | For example , he thought that BT should be allowed to offer entertainment services but seemed to be unaware that it could and had applied for cable franchises . |
| 27 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 28 | Mr Hnatiuk had taken one look at the approaching Mrs Frizzell and had dived for cover into a knot of other businessmen . |
| 29 | ‘ Plancius ’ was anchored some way offshore because of shallow water and reefs , so when the first party went off in the inflatable , we could see no land at all and had to steer by compass . |
| 30 | He had helped Isobel sort out her father 's tangled financial affairs and had fallen in love with her quiet , fragile beauty . |