Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night chosen for the attempt , Friday 9 September 1715 , was suitably dark and stormy but , as so often , Scottish throats had imbibed too freely , Scottish tongues had wagged too readily and the raiding party , scaling the walls in the darkness , were driven off or captured . |
| 2 | As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home . |
| 3 | You had to sit up straight and there was barely room for your knees . |
| 4 | So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes . |
| 5 | His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule . |
| 6 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 7 | The bus from Francistown had broken down again and the passengers disembarked , squatting in the cumbersome shade of a baobab tree . |
| 8 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 9 | Cos if you g if anybody go down there now they could see where what we call the Pier Head , so ships had to go up there and turn in to the lock gate . |
| 10 | Er and we were getting the impression then we were only , not wanting to decry them Bettaware salesmen or Bettaware people , you had to go round now and stick catalogues through people 's doors and go back and |
| 11 | I did n't sign on or claim money or nothing , so I had to go out there and steal to get money in my pocket and clothes on my back . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to go there anyway and I saw it . |
| 13 | They took it out and sort of temporarily fixed it in so that they could get this out at the funeral and then he had to go back later and fix the window in . |
| 14 | And I joined the the engineer 's union , one Saturday night in Newark , had to go back there and they had meetings in the townhall , a room that was hired and er was er particulars taken and I 've been in ever since . |
| 15 | Its eyes and part of its face were gone , and its belly had swollen up hard and tight . |
| 16 | The leaves had fallen earlier here and some of the trees were already skeletons against the autumn sky , mingling their inky branches with the black cables of the electric pylons . |
| 17 | Many ringsiders felt the 22-year-old from the Mount Tallant Club had won quite convincingly and there was quite a few surprised faces when the final scoring was announced . |
| 18 | Does that mean you have to , had to work fairly slowly and carefully ? |
| 19 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 20 | Hari nodded , she was glad of the trade , orders had dropped off lately and now she no longer had the boots of Edward Morris to repair , she was finding work hard to come by . |
| 21 | I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the . |
| 22 | Most of his friends were still on the loose while he had to come home eventually and he felt he was always answerable to ‘ the wife ’ . |
| 23 | She had looked everywhere else and , although it seemed a long shot , she might as well look in there . |
| 24 | She had just finished an article about pawnshops , the meat of which had been supplied by Rose , who had come round again and invited Sally-Anne to tea at the Buildings . |
| 25 | However , Kayley had come round quickly and probably never stopped breathing . |
| 26 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 27 | The flesh had mended , but a persistent weakening fever had come back again and again . |
| 28 | The uncomfortable feeling she 'd had earlier on had come back again and sat like a solid lead ball in her chest . |
| 29 | It seemed the weight of evidence had come down substantially and significantly for the Crown case . |
| 30 | When confronted with the pollution , G. says the manager claimed it was an accident , that a vat had tipped over accidentally and the ice cream had disappeared down a drain . |