Example sentences of "and had [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 2 | Perhaps you 're less well-prepared , with fewer resources and had to scrabble around to find your college place through Clearing ? |
| 3 | I did n't even know what ‘ chump ’ meant and had to go around asking people . |
| 4 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 5 | And then I left my brolly at the chemist 's , and had to go back for it … ’ |
| 6 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
| 7 | But can you see the people who came to the stepping stones and could n't go across and had to go back the way they 'd already come would n't go back with a very their ego would n't have b been boosted very high . |
| 8 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 9 | It was the first time he 'd been really alone since the days when he 'd lived in a hole and had to go out hunting by himself because there was no one else . |
| 10 | Thérèse cried too , and had to go out . |
| 11 | The Department of Education had accepted criticisms of the provision made for young children in ordinary elementary schools and had phased out arrangements for under-threes by 1904 ( in 1875 elementary schools accommodated 19,358 under-threes ) . |
| 12 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 13 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 14 | As usual , Len had side-tracked himself , but what would his reaction have been if he had satisfied his curiosity and said , ‘ Yes , I have a mother : she is now living alone in a manor house in Northumberland , ’ and had gone on to tell him , why . |
| 15 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 16 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 17 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 18 | Nails had woken up abruptly and been angry at being discovered , and had gone out into the grey morning without any conversation beyond the threat about pulping Hoomey if he split . |
| 19 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 20 | He had been on the phone in the morning and had gone in to work to check that all is well . |
| 21 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 22 | He was ready to leave Northants and had gone off , with his customary annual zeal , to coach and play for Otago — and think about a geographical change of scenery in England . |
| 23 | I do n't know how else we should do it , ’ and had gone off to prepare their evening meal . |
| 24 | They had n't found anything , and had gone back to their usual haunts . |
| 25 | He , too , had risen from humble origins , from a tenement on New York 's east side , and had built up a great reputation as a reformer . |
| 26 | Dexter explained that Blufton had left school in Guildford when he was sixteen and had built up a chain of antique shops and pizza parlours . |
| 27 | At Indica he had met Miles and had struck up a friendship with the ever-cordial Jim Haynes , and the early contributors pushed the new magazine beyond an Australian mafia , he emphasizes . |
| 28 | George Graham 's gamble on playing his £2.5 million striker backfired as he aggravated a groin injury in the 64th minute and had to limp off . |
| 29 | Her rival never rebuilt and had to give up . ’ |
| 30 | While appearing with them in Berlin in 1937 she tore a ligament and had to give up further hope of dancing . |