Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 2 | At the time I was interested in graphology , and had experimented with various styles of handwriting . |
| 3 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 4 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |
| 5 | He drove an Escort XR3i complete with fluffy toys , and had moved to Lilac Gardens in the eye of the housing price slump , aided by the bequest of a dead aunt . |
| 6 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 7 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |
| 8 | He had held a number of minor Cabinet posts and had served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Takeshita . |
| 9 | However , even this cost control team was subsequently absorbed by the Treasury in 1983 because it was politically unpopular and had met with mixed success . |
| 10 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 11 | In both cases the MMC held that these companies were efficiently run and had contributed to substantial cost savings , the Schumpeterian view of monopoly to which we referred in Chapter 9 and illustrated in Figure 17–2 . |
| 12 | Critics of the privatization plan claimed that it was improvised , lacked clear conditions and had suffered from poor regulation . |
| 13 | The suffragettes were weak physically and numerically , without franchise , and had resorted to passive resistance as the only weapon at their disposal . |
| 14 | Despite a major security operation the government had proved incapable of suppressing the rebellion by force , and had failed in numerous attempts to achieve a ceasefire through negotiation . |
| 15 | The plane had been expected and had come in unchallenged , and would fly away again in total safety . |
| 16 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 17 | He had pursued the question when he was in Rome ( in 1098 or 1100 ) , and had spoken to Urban II on the subject . |
| 18 | They were mixed because although all the vitality , the song , humour , and much of the idiom came from what E. P. Thompson has described as the traditionally ‘ rowdy ’ element in working-class culture these things had now ceased to be spontaneous and informal and had passed into other hands . |
| 19 | Previously with the prominent British executive search firm of Whitehead Mann , he had spent eight years in industry , and had worked in general consulting with HAY-MSL after a distinguished academic record at Cambridge . |
| 20 | By Sept. 28-29 the Nabiyev government had conceded talks , attended by observers including the leader of the Democratic Party of Russia , Nikolai Travkin , and had agreed to key opposition demands , including suspending the communist party , nationalizing its property , lifting the state of emergency , and holding presidential elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 21 | One Head Girl found her team circling round the stage once as rehearsed but then galloping straight off stage to the lavatories ; apparently one of the Girls had realized that she had a sudden attack of diarrhoea and had acted with unheard-of initiative . |
| 22 | Don Roberto had worked with the Colonel and had acted as cut-out between him and the CIA on the operations which Trent had undertaken on the Americans ' behalf . |