Example sentences of "and had [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 2 | Both defendants maintained to police that the baby suffered fits and had done so during the weekend he died . |
| 3 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 4 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |
| 5 | The blow was enormous , not least because Knox had been once again reluctant to leave Geneva for Scotland , and had done so only after consultation with his English congregation there , and with John Calvin . |
| 6 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 7 | One day in fencing practice , he had wondered what it would be like to kill his opponent , and had done so . |
| 8 | Other people had called them ‘ ladies ’ , even that very morning , and had done so without any offence . |
| 9 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 10 | The men defended themselves by arguing that the woman had consented to sex frequently and had done so on this occasion also . |
| 11 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 12 | Lacey 's report found that the Justice Department had conducted a " virtually perfect " inquiry into the affair and had done so in a manner which was free from political influence . |
| 13 | If Parliament had intended the word to mean ‘ releases other than for value ’ , it could and had to say so . |
| 14 | He had found them scruffy , and had said so in no uncertain terms . |
| 15 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 16 | Her father disapproved of him , and had said so , but she had always thought that he would come round to her point of view . |
| 17 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 18 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 19 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 20 | Edouard de Chavigny did : he was a fine athlete , with a blue for cricket , and had taken so well to rowing that , even though a late starter , he had narrowly missed selection for the Oxford eight . |
| 21 | Lydia was wondering why Elizabeth had n't asked April to her dinner party , and also why she had been so silent on the previous evening and had left so early . |
| 22 | These troops , clearly oblivious to danger , were at first thought to be a Dutch contingent , and had come so close that the Bren gunner could fire only two magazines before grenades knocked out his weapon . |
| 23 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 24 | Last year at the RSC , she said , she 'd gone all the way through the season and had worked so hard that she had forgotten about drawing . |